"Snipping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Polly, snipping off a basting thread; "we've got to have the money; how much'll ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... said, snipping briskly with the scissors; "that string of woolen yarn that yez left there, a-burnin' away outside, might burst the whole gun, an' ivery sowl in the blockhouse would be kilt intirely,—moind ye that, now!—an they would n't be the Frenchies, nayther!" He gave her a keen ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... garden of roses and mignonettes and hollyhocks, with crimson ramblers rioting over the wire trellis in front of the broad porch. A girl with soft, thick, blue-black hair was bending over a rosebush. She was snipping dead shoots with a pair of scissors. At the sound of their feet crunching the gravel of the walk, her slender figure straightened and she turned to them. The ripe lips parted above pearly teeth in a smile of welcome to the ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... the question, from hanging a towel straight over the stand, and looked a little amazed, as if she had almost forgotten, herself. But it came out, with a quick opening and shutting of the thin lips, like the snipping of ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... and Chicken Little to Mrs. Smith's for more flowers while she trimmed away industriously. It was a very happy Saturday. The fame of it spread throughout the neighborhood and the three little girls were kept busy snipping and fussing with the tiny headgear. Katy had natural style and taste and some of the ...
— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie
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