It's all right if anybody wants to get good and mad, but I detest snippy folks.
I'll not be snippy and sensitive," she repeated to herself, clasping one of the beads in her fingers as if it really held some potent charm to help her change her mental attitude.
For Lloyd to act snippy and Kitty to be away ten whole days right in the beginning of things was fatal to all her plans.
But I don't care, if it will only help me to remembah not to be snippy and sensitive and to go about my business like that little black ant.
She was sort of snippy about it," Alice returned, ascending the stairs.
That snippy little Henrietta Lamb has always snubbed Alice every time she's ever had the chance.
It was an awfullysnippy letter; but she said she had a headache and didn't feel at all well.
Of course, they were fine and dandy, and I just loved them; but the trouble is, for the last week I've been eating such snippy little pieces.
But she was so snippy the other night I decided to forget it.
Illustration] "That's what your snippylittle brunette said," I told him.
And I tell you, If you go near the dirty oilcan's place, And crawl around that snippy brat of his, I'll kick you out into the street to stay.
Snippy was so tame now, or else he was so glad to be near the little girl, that he was not much afraid of strangers if they did not offer to touch him.
I guess Snippy has moved for good," said Uncle Jason.
Snippy had called, and all the cracker bits were gone, but she had seen the wood doves carrying off some of the crumbs.
Snippy seems quite busy in these days providing for his family; I think, too, he is rather jealous of Jim.
There are some such cunning little squirrels, but Snippy keeps them closely at home, down in the hollow of the tree.
She had traced Snippy to his home, and sure enough he had a companion.
She had a host of squirrel friends now, though Snippy was amusingly jealous, and at times drove the others off.
Snippy wriggled out of the warm embrace presently and questioned her with his bright beady eyes, as if the voice might have led him into a mistake.
Snippy had settled himself quite comfortably, just where they could not tell, and he had evidently coaxed his wife to emigrate.
There was Snippy Brown, a poor old harmless nigger, trying to earn an honest living by selling a surreptitious bottle from a hole in the ground to a thirsting neighbor in the dead of night.
Plainly Snippy Brown was fairly crying to be raided.
But this girl was so nice and simple and boyish; not the least like thosesnippy Boston buds!
How should a fellow who has spent his life in English schools and traveling about with a tutor, and then is dumped into Harvard, be expected to make a splash among those snippy young swells?
Betty said it was curious how snippy girls of that age can be sometimes, and then turn out to be such fine women afterward, when they outgrow their snippiness and snobbishness.
And we won't ever have to come back to this snippy little town," continued Ethel.
I wanted to go away out beyond the Newtons, but now we'll have to take a little snippy one.
She will think we are her good friends, not like that snippy Miss Fern who stared so at the cobwebs and then went out and palavered over Epimenides Antinous.
Well, anyhow, when that snippy Miss Fern comes again, giving her perfunctory pokes at the baby and looking at the cobwebs until nobody can help seeing them, I bet she won't find anything to turn up her nose at.
I won't come and meet your snippy Mr. Long, Miss Pat.
I should think Niagara Falls was quite as important as those snippy little falls at that camp in the Adirondacks that you said were so much admired.
My dear Miss Patricia Kendall, you forget that the most exclusive families have their camps near that snippy falls, while only the cheap tourist makes the pilgrimage to Niagara.
