As soon as the little Red Hen heard this, she took out her scissors, and began to snip a hole in the sack, just large enough for the Mouse to creep through.
Illustration] As soon as the little Red Hen heard this, she took out her scissors, and began to snip a hole in the sack, just large enough for the Mouse to creep through.
I'd got my rugger and boxing blues and I'd just been picked for scrum-half for England against the North in the first trial match, and between ourselves it really did look as if I was more or less of a snip for my international.
He was running easily and well, as becomes a man who, in his day, had been a snip for his international at scrum-half.
De Jedge didn't git hurt, but I hear Pudd'nhead say de bullet snip some o' his ha'r off.
Whereupon Mr. Snip retired and Jorrocks with a wink at Whistlebinkie showed the travellers out.
This perfectly innocent and sincerely asked question was never answered, for Mr. Snip the Tailor made up his mind that the Unwiseman was guying him and acted accordingly.
There, thatʼs the third cut youʼve got, and I wonʼt take another snip at you.
Snip off a very minute portion from the muscle of a rabbit, or any small animal recently dead.
That is, break the shell carefully andsnip the outer shell membrane, thus opening the space between the outer and inner membranes.
Brown-ears, Snipand Peepy, won't you come out with me?
Papa, Mamma, Fuzz and Brown-ears, Snip and Peepy, their four children.
Fuzz and Brown-ears, Snip and Peepy felt rather strange and lonely; two round furry balls seemed a very queer sort of exchange for their active, bright-eyed father and mother.
I tell you that a shudder goes over one; one doesn't know sometimes whether to laugh at the one who is looking, and give him a snip on the nose, or to take to crying and fall on his neck.
My dear girls, you make the mistake of your life when you begin to snip and clip and tinker with those pretty little curtains that fall over your eyes.
Why so, Snip snap, this war is at an end, but this wilderness is world without end.
Soon after my departure Sally Snip became the wife of Daniel Nimble, an aspiring apprentice of old Simon's.
Old Snip was ambitious, and designed quite another match for his daughter than a penniless young barber like myself, and gave me plainly to understand that if I did not sheer off he would baste my broadcloth for me.
Why, I once knew a man named Snip who said he had been attacked one night in South America by a sarpint full forty feet long, and who saved his life by means of a blunderbuss, though he didn't fire at the reptile at all.
When this preparatory ceremony was gone through, forth issued captain Snip from the tavern door, in all the glory of a blue coat, epaulettes, a sword and feather.
I know not how captain Snip felt upon descending to his ordinary employment, from such a height of military glory, but I myself have been sad and melancholy ever since, when I reflected upon the events of the day.
The barber bowed politely to his customer, and begging him to be seated, tied a large cloth round his neck, and rubbed his chin with soap; but instead of cutting off his beard, the barber made a snip at the end of his tail.
Her husband could not see anything to snip at; but then he was so stupid that was not surprising!
One day his father, Bevo the Hike, came home and found Bimbo the Snipsitting on the front steps with his thumb fastened to his nose and the fingers wiggling.
When Bevo the Hike got home that night Bimbo the Snip was in bed and all tickled.
The Brown Hen drew her right foot up under her ruffled plumage and turned her head to one side, looking severely at Bobs and Snip as they backed the lumber wagon up to the side porch.
Snip had wanted to ask many more questions, but so much began to happen that he quite forgot about the Brown Hen.
I spoke to the Horses about it afterward, and Bobs was very polite, but that didn't give me the bath which he and that silly young Snip had spoiled.
The Ducks never kept up with the others, and they were close to the house when Bobs and Snip stopped there.
She turned her head to the other side and looked severely at Bobs and Snip with that eye.
Bobs and Snip were no longer on the farm, having gone to town, to work there with their old master, so the Hog was the next to speak.
After this, I shall pick out of each consecutive month the 9th day for amplification and comment, keeping not too long in one tune, but a snip and away.
Your worship speaks like a very saint," replied Preciosa; "proceed thus, and we shall snip pieces off your old coats for relics.
It had taken a snip off Mamma's and Papa's room on one side of the window, and a snip off the spare room on the other.
The Corporal is at work among the cabbages, and Snip is helping him, ma'am.
