The 342 occurrences of snag
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Unless we hit a snag, or Peg Grant and his guides break up our game, a few days ought to see us heading back to Circle Ranch with a story calculated to make the boys sit up and take notice; or else----" "Just pull up right there, Frank," interrupted his chum, with a laugh.
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I've sort of struck a snag, and it's bothering me.
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All hands rushed to the damaged barge and found that a snag, a sunken log, had penetrated the bottom.
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Directly after leaving the old negro, Boyton espied something in the river below him, which he thought was a snag or the floating branches of a tree; but as he drove swiftly along and looked more closely, he saw it was a large deer swimming across.
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Above Burlington they ran across somewhat of a snag in the shape of a pilot's union.
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During the forenoon after leaving the camp of the rustlers, Paul was hurled violently against a snag and his dress began leaking.
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In the midst of the storm, they ran against a snag, but fortunately, no damage was done.
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The river was full of obstructions and suddenly Boyton and Creelman in his canvas canoe, were flung on a snag, the latter losing an oar.
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The end thus loosened had swung down-stream a little way, and there caught on a snag formed of a huge, half-submerged root.
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These boats were doubled-hulled; and when one of them straddled a snag, no matter if it was the largest tree that ever grew, it was bound to disappear.
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Hugh was remarking upon some matter on the other side of the world, when she asked him as abruptly as a boat might strike a snag: "Is your grandfather a Whig?"
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"I have run against a snag," said Charley.
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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 gripped her so that she couldn't move.
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Yes, he knows something--too damned much... No, I wouldn't snag him here; he might talk too loud and get somebody to believe him--some fool in a Federal grand jury, for instance.
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our swamp deer); and the extreme type is that in which the royal is represented merely by a snag, the whole horn being bent forward ( ex .
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I want to see what the little chap 'll do with this rattler; these blamed little bells set up a jinglin' noise every time the hack struck a snag."
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I've tried to study out just how that happened to go agin the grain so mighty awful, but I'm up agin a snag.
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"Here I ran against a snag, for your grandmother said that perhaps I could get yours without your being there, for my little sister could be your proxy.
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Motoza wouldn't have had any trouble in wiping out two young tenderfeet like you, but he'd likely run agin a snag when he tried it on _me_!"
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If a ship going down the river strikes a snag, or encounters a storm, a cry goes up against the captain.
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Bateese, who cared nothing for sport, had paddled up-stream to inspect the next reach of the river, and there, at the first ford, had found the moose lying dead and warm, with the ripple running over his flank and his gigantic horns high out of the water like a snag.
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Mr. Robert says he'll give him his instructions, and all that; but when it came to springin' the programme on Clifford he runs on a snag.
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He thought his precious hook was caught on a snag.
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"Fastum round big wood!" he cried; and then he tried to explain how the fish had entangled the line round what an American would call a snag; and the result was that we had two fine fish to carry back to the camp, Jimmy's being tired out and readily yielding as he hauled on the line.
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But my word, he is in a snag.
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Every now and then the boats grated against a snag, which reminded them of the danger which they would have to encounter when returning.
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Several of the officers indeed expressed their fears that his boat might strike against a snag, or be dashed on the rocks, and all on board lose their lives.
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The next instant, her bow striking a rock, she was whirled round, when her stern came in contact with a snag also fixed in the crevices of another rock.
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A few days after that adventure, the Caroline, the largest and finest steam-boat upon the Mississippi, struck a snag in coming down the stream, and sank immediately.
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She was originally a snag-boat, and so constructed with special view to strength.
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Before going far the Juliet struck a snag, which made it necessary to go back and stop the leak.
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I just kind of thought Buck was wishing we'd run on a snag, the same way he did, and lost our boat, too, replied Fred, promptly; at which Bristles chuckled.
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"Do you mean he'd put a snag in the course, so that Brad would run on it, never dreaming there was such a thing there?" asked the indignant Fred.
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And as it isn't likely we'll hit a snag, or set fire to the old shanty ourselves, why, he might think to save us the trouble."
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"And then smashed his shell on a snag the first thing," continued Semi-Colon, who had heard what was said.
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"You can make it up by helpin' me when I run against a snag, in my studies."
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In fact, any of these stools here will float you, sir, should the boat hit a snag, and go down in the dark.
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"Tell me what a true-blue scout would figure out as his line of duty in case he ran up against a snag when his whole heart was set on doing a thing."
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"Feels as if I'd hooked a snag," said Jack.
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Here they struck a snag, well-nigh capsizing the boat.
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If we'd struck a snag that would have held the tree, it would have been 'good-night' for us.
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Just there he struck a snag.
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De dogs done mighty well, 'long ez dey had dealin's wid de small fry, like Brer Fox, an' Brer Coon, an' Brer Wolf, but when dey run ag'in' ol' Brer B'ar, dey sho struck a snag.
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I had struck a snag or boulder.
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"By that I suppose you mean they've struck a snag?" questioned Elmer.
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King Philip was pliant, And far from defiant --"And servile," no doubt you retort!-- But if _you_ struck a snag on A bottle-green dragon, Who filled up two-thirds of your court, And curled up his tail on your new tin roof, And made your piazza groan under his hoof, Would you threaten and thunder, Or just knuckle under Completely, I wonder, If put to proof?
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It was a pretty general average; but, what was worse than all a snag had intercepted and unshipped our rudder, and we were floating away from it, as it still remained fixed upon the sunken tree.
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They ran upon a snag, and were obliged to lay the vessel on shore until they could put the cargo on board of another steamboat, and repair the damage.
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Two weeks later, when we were up the river and our canoe struck a snag, I discovered that Thomas Jefferson Brown "couldn't swim a stroke!"
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"We're hung up here on a snag, and need help.
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"If we help somebody else off a snag we're likely to have a whole ship put at our disposal!"
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Next thing we know we may hit a snag and upset."
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A snag of a comb and a brush were thrust in a wooden strip near the small cheap mirror.
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"Perhaps a snag waving in the wind."
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"Perhaps a snag tossing in the motion of the water,--at all events, you can't say there was no water."
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There was a snag hard by, fast anchored in the bottom of the Bogue.
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Reconnoissance concluded--What we Saw and What we didn't See, and what the Good Public Read--Pigeon-hole Generalship and the Press--The Preacher Lieutenant and how he Recruited--Comparative Merits of Black Union Men and White Rebels--A Ground Blast, and its effect upon a Pigeon-hole General--Staff Officers Striking a Snag in the Western Virginia Captain--Why the People have a right to expect Active Army Movements--Red Tape and the Sick List--Pigeon-holing at Division Head-quarters, 100 CHAPTER X.
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What we Saw and What we didn't See, and what the Good Public Read--Pigeon-hole Generalship and the Press--The Preacher Lieutenant and how he Recruited--Comparative Merits of Black Union Men and White Rebels--A Ground Blast, and its effect upon a Pigeon-hole General--Staff Officers Striking a Snag in the Western Virginia Captain--Why the People have a right to expect active Army Movements--Red Tape and the Sick List--Pigeon-holing at Division Head-quarters._ In the misty morning arms were taken and the forward resumed.
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We had left Cairo, and were steaming down the Mississippi, when the boat struck a snag, and in a very short time had sunk down to the cabin.
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He started as though his boat had struck a snag.
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But it filled him with inward tremors to know that if she chose to leave the usual haunts of navigation on her left, and steam out over the submerged prairies and the lake, and into the very shadow of these cypresses, she could do it without fear of a snag or a shallow.
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There's where Mr. Boss strikes a snag.
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We incurred the danger, we knew, of running against a floating log or a snag, or sticking fast on a shallow; but it was better to run these risks than be shot by Indians, for although we had only seen one there might be dozens of them.
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As the river continued to fall, the larger gunboats were sent down as fast as possible to Alexandria, whither Porter followed them on the 16th, leaving the _Osage_ and _Lexington_ at Grand Ecore, and the big _Eastport_ eight miles below, where, on the 15th, she had been sunk to her gun-deck either by a torpedo or by a snag.
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Almost overhead a log-cock clung lengthwise to a snag, watching him.
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Whenever we left the trail, we felt some doubt lest we might not find it again, or might happen upon an impassable stream that would cut us off from farther progress; not feeling quite equal to navigating with a pole on a snag, after the fashion of the Indians.
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As I had hoped, the fact that we held the kraal had not been spotted by the enemy, and a large body of them, crawling up the south side of the hill in order to get a good fire on to us in the river, struck a snag in the shape of a close-range volley from our detachment.
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You seem to have run up against a snag, Mr. Douglas.
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The steamer John Adams, on her way from New Orleans to Cincinnati, struck on a snag in the Mississippi river, on the morning of January 27th.
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A dull line of light hovered on the horizon, and gradually the woods on the opposite shore took shape, then the big river itself, gray and shimmering, with streaks on the water where a snag broke the swift current.
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"Yes," said Rollo, in English; "if we should strike a snag or any thing, broadside on, the boat would roll right over."
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"A snag!" repeated Gerald, contemptuously.
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The idea was indeed absurd of finding a snag in the River Rhone; for a snag is formed by a floating tree, which is washed into the river by the undermining of the banks, and is then carried down until it gets lodged.
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"I was wondering where you would have been today if Noah had run his ark into such a fog as this, and there had been no fog-horn on Mount Ararat, and he had passed by with his excursion and not made a landing, and had floated around on the freshet until all the animals starved, and the ark had struck a snag and burst a hole in their bottom.
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Her foot tripped and all she could do was to snatch at an overhanging branch of a snag as she fell forward.
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He did not know that the blessed light that showed him his path to safety shone from the radiant hair of the Moon, bound fast to a snag and half buried in the bog.
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Thus the Congo journey takes on a constant element of hazard because you do not know what moment you will run aground on a sand-bank, be impaled on a snag, or strike a rock.
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A fallen log; a rut; a snag; and one rider's race would be done; for the pace they were going left no escape if once a horse came down.
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"I reckon we've run ag'in a snag, Patches," he said.
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The boat Alison ran against a snag here and was sunk, and is now being raised.
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The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago Copyright, 1913 by The Reilly & Britton Co. All Rights Reserved ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Introducing An Airship And Count Zept 9 II A Curious Stranger Learns the Object of the _Gitchie Manitou_ 27 III Colonel Howell Makes a Novel Proposal 42 IV Colonel Howell Discovers an Old Friend in Jack Zept 58 V Negotiating and Outfitting 72 VI The Expedition Strikes a Snag in Edmonton 86 VII A Tempestuous Voyage to Athabasca Landing 100 VIII Count Zept Makes Himself Known at the Landing 114 IX The Song of the Voyageur 128 X Paul Awakens to the Situation 142 XI Preparing Camp for Winter 155 XII Breasting a Blizzard in an Airship 169 XIII In the Land of Caribou, Moose and Musk Ox 187 XIV In the Cabin of the Paralyzed Indian 201 XV A Letter Goes Wrong 217 XVI Roy Conducts a Hunt 232 XVII The _Gitchie Manitou_ Wins a Race 248 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The _Gitchie Manitou_ ready for its first flight in the Far North.
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CHAPTER VI THE EXPEDITION STRIKES A SNAG IN EDMONTON At three o'clock the fast express pulled out of the big depot at Calgary on its way to Edmonton, then the northern limit of railroad transportation on the American Continent.
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Presently he glided to a snag not more than a rod from the chickadee's domicile, and then I noticed that the dead bole was perforated by a number of woodpecker holes, into one of which the sapsucker presently slipped with the tidbit he held in his bill.
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Having betaken himself to a lake, he does not at once plunge into its depths after the manner of a duck, but finding a perch on a snag or a fallen pine, he sits there a moment, and then, flying out thirty or forty yards, "he alights with a dainty glint on the surface, swims about, looks down, finally makes up his mind, and disappears with a sharp stroke of his wings."
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There was an awkward moment when the cable got foul of a snag, and the _White Horse_ swerved round and lay broadside to the torrent, which for several minutes heeled her over at a very uncomfortable angle.
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As a snag-boat, formerly used by Eads, she had "had two hulls so joined and strengthened that she could get the largest kind of a cottonwood tree between them, hoist it out of the mud, and drag it clear of the channel."
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STUCK ON A SNAG XIII.
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The houseboat had gone whirling in a bend of the stream, struck a snag and hurled poor Fred overboard.
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"But I shan't strike a snag if I can help it.
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They won't dare to run full speed for fear of blowing up or of striking a snag."
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CHAPTER XII STUCK ON A SNAG It was certainly a moment of intense anxiety, both for those on the launch and on the houseboat, and for the time being the fight between the two factions came to an end.
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You've run up against a snag.
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Once in a while a snag of venison; antelope hard to get; no buffalo now, and very few elk; by now, even ducks and geese began to look good, and trout.
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"Well, you ran against a snag that time, Mr. Sanguinary Stingaree!"
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"You certainly ran against a snag," he repeated, "and now your mate's run against another."
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When there was a fight and a snag and a wrangle between two families living next door neighbors to each other and this old flongboo was called in to umpire and to say which family was right and which family was wrong, which family started it and which family ought to stop it, he used to say, "The best umpire is the one who knows just how far to go and how far not to go."
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Always figure the time you have allowed each person to change costume, otherwise you will strike a snag which may ruin the performance.
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I have observed that when you combine in a gen'elman them two features jest mentioned--a Adamses' apple that's always running up and down like a cat squirrel on a snag, and eyes away 'round yonder so's he can see both ways at once without moving his head--you've got a gen'elman that's specially created to store away licker.
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The vessel got under way on the 8th of June, in charge of Acting Assistant Joseph E. Harris, to whom Mr. Gerdes had transferred the command, but unfortunately a few hours after starting she broke her shaft by striking a snag, and was entirely disabled, until extensively repaired.