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Updated: May 5, 2025
Somewhere I have a snap-shot of myself standing on Glacier Point, that rock that juts out over the valley, clinging to Charley's hand, for I found that standing there with the snow falling, looking down thousands of feet, made me crave a hand to keep the snowflakes from drawing me down.
The alert sallies and quick retorts, the pat allusions and apt quotations, the exaggerations, the absurdities, the shrewd witticisms, the searching satires, the puns and improvised nonsense verses might possibly have been registered on paper, but the spirit of merriment, of good fellowship and mutual understanding that made thoughts to live and words to sing the spirit of Brook Farm no snap-shot camera could ever have caught.
Then he brought it to the cabin, put it on the floor and set the Little Feller inside it. They sent me a snap-shot of the event, but it is not very good.
Newmark thrust his gun barrels into one of the pails and with the hickory wiper pumped the water up and down. "He's a good snap-shot," Bobby heard a man tell a stranger, in a half-voice. "Has a brilliant style," commented the other.
"Yes," I answered, drily, "that is about my measure, I presume." Her eyes twinkled. "I thought the measure rather scant," she observed, mischievously. "I wish I might have a snap-shot of you in that uniform." "I am afraid the opportunity for that is past." "But it " with a little bubble of mirth, "it was so funny." "No doubt. I am sorry I can't oblige you with a photograph."
Details came to his attention from time to time during the autumn which served to strengthen his snap-shot judgment, but he made the mistake, doubtless, of failing to communicate his dissatisfaction to Professor Young, and so giving him an inkling of impending disaster.
Wunpost held his gun against the light until the sights were lined up fine, then swung back for a snap-shot at Lynch; and as the rifle belched and kicked he caught a flash of a tumbling form and clutching hands thrown up wildly against the sky.
What a relief to snarl at wife an' frinds wanst more, to smoke a seegar with th' thrust magnate that owns th' cider facthry near th' station, to take ye'er nap in th' afthernoon undisthurbed be th' chirp iv th' snap-shot! 'Tis th' day afther iliction I'd like f'r to be a candydate, Hinnissy, no matther how it wint." "An' what's become iv th' vice-prisidintial candydates?" Mr. Hennessy asked.
I doubt if he would have been so rash had he known that Yeates and his borderers were concealed in easy pistol-shot; but the simultaneous cracking of a dozen rifles warned and sent the trio scuttling back to cover. Dick swore piteously, with the snap-shot skirmishers for a target. "The fumblers!" he raged.
We stopped to take a snap-shot at them, to the intense satisfaction of the little kink-haired mother of the twins, who, barring her blue calico gown, looked as if she might have just stepped out of a Zulu group. Cloverport has brick-works, gas wells, a flouring-mill, and other industries.
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