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Definition of Snapped
1. snap [v] - See also: snap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snapped
Literary usage of Snapped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The court did not err in failing to charge, la the absence of a timely and
appropriate written request, that if the defendant unlawfully pointed and snapped ..."
2. Fir-flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese by Amy Lowell (1921)
"... He pulled down and snapped off the branch of a willow-tree. When he dismounted,
he blew into his horizontal flute, And it was as though the fierce grief ..."
3. Fir-flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese by Amy Lowell (1921)
"... OF THE snapped WILLOW WRITTEN DURING THE LIANG DYNASTY WHEN he mounted his
horse, he did not take his leather riding- whip; He pulled down and snapped ..."
4. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... and of the President's Speech—Last Political Link between him and Adams
snapped—Another Theory, based on Misrepresentation—Origin of Jefferson's ..."
5. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"CHAPTER III THE POETS BETWEEN SURREY AND SPENSER Constituents — Predominance of
the fourteener—Googe— H1s snapped verses—Turberville—Tusser—Gascoigne—The ..."
6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"... door were burst off their hinges ; locks and bolts wer snapped like glass ;
the brick walls of one or tw houses were caved in like bellying sails, ..."
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