In breeding-time snipes play over the moors, piping and humming: they always hum as they are descending.
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
As to wild fowls, we have a few teams of ducks bred in the moors where the snipes breed; and multitudes of widgeons and teals in hard weather frequent our lakes in the forest.
Water settling in these forms a sort of water road for snipes to run in.
When setting this description of trap for snipes or woodcocks no bait is used.
Immense numbers of these are made in some districts for the capture of snipes and woodcocks, and are used in a kind of trap known as a "springle.
After de weddin' we went down to de cabin Mis' Betsy done all dressed up, but Exter couldn' stay no longer den dat night kaze he belonged to Marse Snipes Durham an' he had to back home.
He belonged to Marse Snipes Durham who had de plantation 'cross de county line in Orange County.
Mis Betsy was a Snipes befo' she married Marse George.
Locking souls with him, he meant to drag Captain Snipes from this earthly tribunal of his, to that of Jehovah, and let Him decide between them.
Captain Snipescame forward to see what occasioned it.
Through a powerful glass, which Captain Lane furnished him, Fernando recognized Captain Snipes standing on the quarter deck, smoking a cigar.
It fell over on the lee side dragging with it the fore mainstay and crippling the rigging to such an extent that Captain Snipes began to fear he could not get his vessel out of the harbor.
Captain Snipes accompanied the sergeant of the marines to see that the prisoner was properly executed.
Sukey cried warmly, and the haughty, cruel Captain Snipes passed away, the victim of God's vengeance.
Snipes had severe internal injuries and was dying.
To all the young American's supplications, Captain Snipes turned a deaf ear.
Captain Snipes of the English frigate was one of those barbarous, tyrannical sea captains, more brute than human, and, in an age when the strict discipline of the navy permitted tyranny to exist, he became a monster.
This left Lieutenant Matson in command of the Xenophon until Captain Snipes was assigned to that duty.
He saw British marines, headed by Captain Snipes and Lieutenant Matson, leap from boats and rush toward them as they stood on the beach.
In breeding-time snipes play over the moors, piping and humming; they always hum as they are descending.
As to wild fowls, we have a few teems of ducks bred in the moors where the snipes breed; and multitudes of widgeons and teals in hard weather frequent our lakes in the forest.
When you say that in breeding-time the cocksnipes make a bleating noise, and I a drumming (perhaps I should rather have said a humming), I suspect we mean the same thing.
After the summer heats are over Snipes suddenly appear again all over the country, and at this season they are frequently met with on the high and dry grounds among the withered grass and thistles.
Like the Plovers, the Snipes are nearly universally distributed over the world's surface, though most abundant in northern regions.
The Seed-Snipes are inhabitants of bare and desolate districts, being found in the northern parts of the continent only on the high Andes, but descending to the sea-level in Patagonia and the Falkland Islands.
It is, indeed, curious to see how these habits, characteristic of the Snipesall over the world, are so completely laid aside when the birds associate in large flocks.
Two snipes will often fly chasing each other, uttering this note, and making from time to time the loud swishing with the wings.
Two other snipes are now flying about in this latter way and chasing each other.
There was no further comment on the killing, but the men worked in a better frame of mind than they had since Snipes had assumed command.
We might have thought the fellow who guided us was lying about the location, but his surprise and consternation on finding no chest beneath the body of the murdered Snipes were too real to be feigned.
Tarzan had seen the young man pick up the fallen revolver of the wounded Snipes and hide it away in his breast; and he had also seen him slip it cautiously to the girl as she entered the cabin door.
Seebohm states that young snipes may be recognized by not having a dark shaft-line on the light tips of the upper wing-coverts, but I have found indications of the latter in quite young birds.
This subfamily contains all of the snipes and a number of small sandpipers; the toes are without webs, otherwise many of the genera might easily fall in the subfamily Totaninæ.
A few may always be seen, however, hung up in the market with the Common Snipes through the autumn and winter.
Probably the Snipes I have found in these unlikely places were not there by choice, but because driven from their more favourite places by the continual gunning going on in almost every field inland.
Snipes came up and helped him down and out, and the old man and the boy walked slowly and in silence out to the Bowery.
Then he swerved slightly, so that he might have fallen if Snipes had not caught him and helped him across the pavement to a seat on a stoop.
Snipes looked up keenly from under the rim of his hat and rubbed one of his muddy feet over the other as was his habit.
Snipes could not have told you why he did this or why this particular old countryman was any different from the many others who came to buy counterfeit money and who were thieves at heart as well as in deed.
Snipes helped his companion into a car and put him off at the Grand Central Depot.
This all helped to make Snipes morose, and it was with a cynical smile of satisfaction that he watched an old countryman coming slowly up the street, and asking his way timidly of the Italians to Case's tenement.
Snipes had stopped fanning the old man, as he ran on, and was listening intently, with an uncomfortable feeling of sympathy and sorrow, uncomfortable because he was not used to it.
He would stand a very small chance, if he fired at random into the sky, being told that snipes were flying there.
Why, it takes a sharpshooter to bring down even such trivial game as snipes and woodcocks; he must take very particular aim, and know what he is aiming at.
His snipes were cut down as if you had whipped them over: his hares were mangled; his partridges smashed.
There was to be continuity of glance; and thus at last he brought down his snipes right and left, as it seemed, with a sweep of the gun.
Why, it takes a sharp-shooter to bring down even such trivial game as snipes and woodcocks; he must take very particular aim, and know what he is aiming at.
Snipes are served in several ways, as described for bobolinks and other small birds.
Mr. Gould has ascertained by the dissection of those snipes which arrive the first in this country, that the males come before the females.
The females of the three species of Painted Snipes (Rhynchaea, Fig.
Why should these gutter snipes want the papers for the thumb prints?
Thim snipes must have been dhruv from the say, an' have come here unknownst to any wan.
But the snipes and plover had gone into a decline, the orioles and ovenbirds had grown thin and unkempt, and the bobolinks and meadow-larks had eaten themselves to death.
Snipes and plover, orioles and ovenbirds, bobolinks and meadow-larks, all had lived in it by turns for a few days.
Load the gun, then, and let's have a shot at the snipesas we go," said Tom.
Woodcocks and snipes always have their intestines stuffed full of taeniae and the eggs of these worms.
We have made these drawings from worms collected from snipes some instants after their death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snipes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
