"Snappy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... letter to write, I keep these two men in mind and I center all my efforts to convince them; using practical, commonsense arguments to convince the father, and enough snappy 'try-it-for-yourself' talk to ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous
... and modern young persons who would rather fox trot than eat any day. Accordingly on Thursday it was agreed that they should repair to the White Swan, a resort down the river, famous for its excellent cuisine, its perfect dance floor and its "snappy" negro orchestra. Both Ted and Madeline knew that the Swan had also a reputation of another less desirable sort, but both were willing to ignore the fact for the sake of enjoying the "jolliest jazz on the river" as the advertisement read. The dance ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... smoke clouds lie, Wind-ript and red, on an angry sky— Coal-dumps and derricks and piled-up bales, Tar and the gear of forgotten sails, Rusted chains and a broken spar (Yesterday's breath on the things that are) A lone, black cat and a snappy cur, Smell of high-tide and of newcut fir, Smell of low-tide, fish, weed!—I swear I love every blessed smell that's there— For, aeons ago when the sea began, My soul was the soul ...
— Fires of Driftwood • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... squeak and you made a very snappy recovery at the last second," said Westerling, passing a compliment across the white posts. Marta could literally see a white post there ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... 'opping wos prime though, and 'Arry in course wos all there. I 'ad several turns with a snappy young party with stror coloured 'air. Her name she hinfonned me wos Polly, and wen in my 'appiest style, I sez, 'Polly is nicer than Politics!' didn't she ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
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