The 342 occurrences of snag
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- We Commsd Doctering, I hope the Success in this case, usial to [Clark, June 9, 1804] 9th of June 1804 Satturday a fair morning, the River rise a little we got fast on a Snag Soon after we Set out which detained us a Short time passed the upper Point of the Island Several Small Chanels running out of the River below a Bluff & Prarie (Called the Prariee of Arrows) where the river is confined within the width of 300 yds.
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Island on the S. S. we had like to have Stove our boat, in going round a Snag her Stern Struck a log under Water & She Swung round on the Snag, with her broad Side to the Current expd.
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at the lower point on the L. S. the boat passd on the L. S. of those Islands Several Small Sand Islands in the Channel, the Boat run on the point of a Snag, (2) passed a place above the Island L. S. where about 20 acres of the hill has latterly Sliped into the river above a clift of Sand Stone for about two miles, the resort of burds of Different Kinds to reare their young.
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shore, opposite to the lower point, or commencement of the white Calk Bluff- [Clark, August 28, 1804] 28th August Tuesday, 1804 The wind blew hard last night one Indian Stayed with us all night, Set out under a Stiff Breeze from S and proceedd on passe a Willow Island at two miles Several Sand bars the river here is wide & Shallow full of Sand bars- The High land appear to be getting nearer to each other passed a Bluff containing Some white earth on the L. S. below this Bluff for Some mile the Plain rises gradually to the hight of the Bluff which is 70 or 80 foot, here the Indian boy left us for his Camp- Capt Lewis & my Self much indisposed- I think from the Homney we Substitute in place of bread, (or Plumbs) we proceeded on about 3 Miles higher and Camped below the Calumet Bluff in a Plain on the L. S. to waite the return of Sergt Pryor & Mr. Durioun, who we Sent to the Soues Camp from the mouth of R. Jacque, before we landed the French rund a Snag thro their Perogue, and like to have Sunk, we had her on loaded, from an examonation found that this Perogue was unfit for Service, & Deturmined to Send her back by the Party intended to Send back and take their Perogue, accordingly Changed the loads, Some of the loading was wet wind blows hard from the South.
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Lewis & my Self much indisposed owing to Some Cause for which we cannot account one of the Perogues run a Snag thro her and was near Sinking in the opinions of the Crew- we came too below the Calumet Bluff and formed a camp in a Butifull Plain near the foot of the high land which rises with a gradual assent near this Bluff I observe more timber in the valey & on the points than usial- The Perogue which was injurd I had unloaded and the Loading put into the other Perogue which we intended to Send back, the Perogue & changed the Crew after examoning her & finding that She was unfit for Service deturmined to Send her back by the party Some load which was in the Perogue much inju'd The wind blew hard this after noon from the South- J. Shields & J.
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Gibson in attempting to mount his horse after Shooting a deer this evening fell and on a Snag and sent it nearly two inches into the Muskeler part of his thy.
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He struck a snag when he appealed to the National Kansas Committee for a gift of rifles and an appropriation of five thousand dollars.
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You can't see a snag in one of those shadows, but you know exactly where it is, and the shape of the river tells you when you are coming to it.
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As long as that hill over yonder is only one hill, I can boom right along the way I'm going; but the moment it splits at the top and forms a V, I know I've got to scratch to starboard in a hurry, or I'll bang this boat's brains out against a rock; and then the moment one of the prongs of the V swings behind the other, I've got to waltz to larboard again, or I'll have a misunderstanding with a snag that would snatch the keelson out of this steamboat as neatly as if it were a sliver in your hand.
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A Melancholy Picture.-On the Move.-River Gossip.-She Went By a-Sparklin'.-Amenities of Life.-A World of Misinformation.- Eloquence of Silence.-Striking a Snag.-Photographically Exact.
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One night the boat struck a snag in the head of Kentucky Bend, and sank with astonishing suddenness; water already well above the cabin floor when the captain got aft.
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He rose and slouched down to his boat, which lay moored to a snag alongside the bank, trodden hard to the consistency of asphalte by a hundred bare feet.
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"There are no landmarks, and we may strike a snag."
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Sometimes they strike their shins agin a snag of a rock; at other times they go whap into a quicksand, and if they don't take special care they are apt to go souse over head and ears into deep water.
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Mr. Merrick's heroes all undergo the very human experience of "hitting a snag."
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But the Ouzel, born on the brink of a stream, or on a snag or boulder in the midst of it, seldom leaves it for a single moment.
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He felt instantly he had struck a snag.
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We found that one of the paddle-wheels was caught in a snag, but there was no harm done.
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"It is a snag!" cried another.
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More often they run up against a snag in the shape of some serious-minded and muscular person, who objects to having his toes trodden on and being shoved off the pavement, and then they usually sober down, to the mutual advantage of themselves and the rest of the community.
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Here and there over the broad clay-colored water moved other boats--tow-boats, a string of government auto-barges, a snag-boat, another packet.
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"You started in, gentlemen, to play a big game of robbery, but ran up against a snag.
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A second time he ran up against a snag, for our hero dodged the blow that was meant for him and countered with a tremendous slugger which landed on his assailant's nose, and over the man fell with a swiftness that would have suggested the kick of a horse, and when he fell he lay there; but two of the other chaps had in the meantime made a rush for Desmond, and they received a rap successively--indeed, they had run in on our young walking champion where he was at home.
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This law, however, struck a snag.
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The Conspiracy--And a Snag First of all comes the propaganda stage with the full force of the editorial virulence of the trust-controlled newspapers directed against labor in favor of "law and order," i.e., the lumber interests.
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I went back to Robert Blackburn's room and got one of his shoes, and ran into a snag again.
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"And I'm a snag," replied Douglas, as he pitched into him; and before the fellow had time to reflect, he lay sprawling in the mud.
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He went at them systematically, however, only to run against a snag within the hour.
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When a snag caught her snowshoe and tripped her, there was hysteria in her cry of resentment.
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At present there is a snag steam-boat stationed on the Mississippi, which has almost entirely cleared it of these obstructions.
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It has a most powerful engine; and when the crew discover a snag, which always lies with the stream, and is known by the ripple on the water, they run down below it for some distance in order to gather head-way--the boat is then run at it full tilt, and seldom fails of breaking off the projecting branch close to the trunk.
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At the last of the ebb, a snag over near the shore would suddenly add on another angle and jab down in the water, coming up again with a shiver and a fish.
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I'll bet you these blamed fools are going to strike a snag one of these days, or they'll leave things so that there'll be a fall-down.
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When finally it was extricated we found that the horse had a bad cut in the breast made by a snag on the log.
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Help me hang him to a snag here," returned Copple, as he untied his lasso.
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In twenty minutes or so he had learnt to turn his paddle slantwise after the stroke, and to drag it so as to assist the steering; which was not always easy, for here and there a snag blocked the main channel, or a pebbly shallow where the eye had to search for the smooth V that signals the best water.
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Hoping in the bitterness of my heart that we _should_ run against a snag, I lay down sullenly in the rain on the wet soaking grass of our raft, and tried to forget my misery in sleep.
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"Jim, we have struck a snag.
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"Never see sech a snag on 'em."
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"I am not quite sure as to what a derelict is: I do not think I am one; out certainly I am not a snag."
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The Tsarevna Frog "Hunters, grooms, and servants rushed in all directions" Ivan learns the language of the birds "The old man went begging from town to town" "One brother was sent to watch the turkeys" The rich brother "The children ran away as fast as their little feet could possibly carry them" "Well, I struck a snag" "Old Frost gave the gentle girl many beautiful, beautiful things" _TO MY LITTLE FRIEND_ EDITH EVANS _AND ALL AMERICAN CHILDREN_ [Illustration: _The Tsarevna Frog_] THE TSAREVNA FROG [Illustration] In an old, old Russian tsarstvo, I do not know when, there lived a sovereign prince with the princess his wife.
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[Illustration: "_Well, I struck a snag_"] The fellow guest speedily ate everything up.
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"Well, I struck a snag," said he.
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They dove and swam and splashed around to their hearts' content for a good quarter of an hour, and even had a little race to a snag sticking up from the bottom fifty yards from the rocks.
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"I'm afraid you'll run up against a snag when you try that sort of thing, Hugh.
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Should such a thing be attempted the joker would find himself up against a snag immediately; and, as those posters announced, he was going to be harshly dealt with up to the "extreme penalty of the law."
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Some one remarked that the nails would pull out the first time the raft struck a snag.
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It was suspended to a snag among the moss growing on the stem of a small tree at five feet up.
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There was no great difficulty, moreover, in finding out that the farm consisted of 80 acres owned and 10 rented, but a snag of the first magnitude was encountered on the question as to how much of it was improved.
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Should such a thing be attempted the joker would find himself up against a snag immediately; and, as those posters announced, he was going to be harshly dealt with up to the "extreme penalty of the law."
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A snag gleams white in his sly, thirsty mouth.
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My hook's foul in a snag, and you've nearly snapped my top-joint.
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A few days after that adventure, the _Caroline_, the largest and finest steamboat upon the Mississippi, struck a snag in coming down the stream, and sank immediately.
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He had, however, struck a snag.
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Maybe he only spiked himself on a snag.
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But--have you ever seen a straw, caught on a snag, try to stop a river?
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Don't get stranded on a snag.
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He has run against a snag.
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"A snag, of course.
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She grabbed with both hands at a snag near by to steady herself with, but as she touched it, it twined itself round her wrists, like a pair of handcuffs, and gript her so that she couldn't move.
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Shooting a rapid, and out into a deep pool at its foot, the Doctor's boat struck a snag, and he, having a resisting power equal to that of a billiard-ball, put his heels where his head had been, and disappeared under the water, to pop up again instantly, sputtering and spitting, like a jug full of yeast with a corn-cob stopper.
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We discovered it the first time we ran on a snag in a bit of a rapid.
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But you've run agin a snag, and you shan't make another bend, this trip; so sheer off!
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Perhaps a snag, loosened from the bank above, may come floating down the stream.
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Once he barely grazed a snag and he shivered, knowing how one of these terrible obstructions could rip the bottom out of a boat.
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"Not now," replied Shif'less Sol, "the wind's risin' too fast, an' we'd hit a tree or a snag, shore.
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TEARS Beads of perspiration on a hot summer's afternoon, A hurry call from the Ritz, Thoughts of plastering the city in half an hour, With twenty-four sheets and large heralds, And a page or two in all the dailies.... She sat in a sumptuous suite at the Ritz, Discussing with her husband, Who had just returned from the beagles in South Carolina Her new pet charity; And she had called me in at this very moment, Because she had struck a snag.
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I saw it in your eye when you came home this evening that you had struck a snag.
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I've got a big day in court to-morrow and I've struck a snag, and I've got to wriggle out of it somehow, before I quit.
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It took more time to get his mouth open; once open, the Red Un pointed to a snag that should have given him trouble if it didn't, and set up a fresh outcry.
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"And you wouldn't like him to run against a snag, would you?"
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Not a snag did those bloody fugitives encounter in their flight.
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I've struck a snag--maybe a stone wall, Darcy!"
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Here, and here only, was a snag concerning food.
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The serang explained that ill luck had caused the boat to strike a snag in the river, and she was taking in water.
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All went well until we came near Chandernagore; we struck a snag; the boat sprang a leak; we feared the bibis would be drowned.
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Two heads are generally better than one if you're up against a snag."
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Hundreds of dressed deodar-logs had caught on a snag of rock, and the river was bringing down more logs every minute to complete the blockade.
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I arose and my head came in violent contact with a snag that was not there when I went to bed.
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Said I to myself: "The personage before me is more than a snag-boat captain.
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About Sioux City, the Government operates a snag-boat, the _Mandan_, at an expense ridiculously disproportionate to its usefulness.
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"Aw, just a snag.
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I had struck a snag, And must creep through the battle spume All a flamin' age, with a grinnin' jag In me thigh, for water, or jest a fag.
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The stream was very swift, and her long clothes kept her up till she caught in a snag just opposite a fisherman, who was mending his nets.
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'Man who drifts down the stream o' life in a painted barge on the broad of his back among the Persian rugs, with a fat cigar in his teeth, an' all his favourite drinks within reach, has gotter strike a snag now 'n agin,' said Long.
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Now and then a snag would be struck, and on such occasions Ruth would start nervously, and cry out: "Alligators!"
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'Westerfelt may fly around the whole caboodle of 'em, but when Liz gits 'er head set she cuts a wide swathe an' never strikes a snag ur stump, an' cleans out the fence-corners as smooth as a parlor floor.'"
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The Reconstructed meet to Congratulate the Country upon the Result of the Memphis Outbreak.--The Reverend discourses upon the Nigger, and runs against a Snag.
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"You'll see that they are bound to meet up with a snag when they apply for admission to the real organization.
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Away went the Gentle Past with a bump, as if it had knocked against a snag in the current of my thoughts.
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Only by your bermission, I vill dake a snag of your ham, andt a slice of French roll, or a modicum of chicken; for to dell you the honest fagd, I am all pote famished, for I laid me down on mine billow in bed the lastd nightd widout mine supper, at the instance of mine physician, for which I am not altogeddere inglined to extend mine fastd no longer.'
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A snag of rock had been driven clean through the timbers of the port-bow.
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The blindly floating boat had drifted upon a snag, seemingly the major portion of a tree, now held by some spit of sand.
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I drifted through the darkness out into the Mississippi, and later became caught on a snag in the middle of that stream.
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I began to wonder what happened as to repairs when canoes ripped over a snag in this kind of region, and that brought up the story of a furtrader's wife in another muskeg region north of Lac La Ronge up toward Churchill River, who was in a canoe that ripped a hole clean the size of a man's fist.
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"And de boat," continued Johnson, "was to strike a snag and smash to pieces, and eberybody go into de water, who would you save?"
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and de boat strike a snag?"
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That was all he said, for Dick never liked to boast in advance of what he expected to accomplish, having learned from sad experience that very often a snag is apt to sink the craft freighted with hopes, and when least expected.
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When the constitution and by-laws were drawn up, the more liberal of the trustees struck a snag in old 'Lige.
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He's completed his first step without a snag cropping up.