Snarled
[sna:rld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Snarl
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Examples
- Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And that you undertook to do what you might have done by this time, if you had made a prompter use of circumstances,' snarled Lammle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Speak, then, he snarled, turning to me; but blaspheme not against the things that are sacred upon Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The day came, and the She-Wolf in the Capitol might have snarled with envy to see how the Island Savages contrived these things now-a-days. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I suppose you know all about it, he snarled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- See that you keep yourself out of my grip, he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I don't know that it's good as a will or as anything else, snarled Mr. Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hark at Meliboeus, snarled the noble marquis; he's pastorally occupied too: he's shearing a Southdown. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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