snip-snap

But the cords are cut, snip-snap, and tied just in time, and in an instant the shocking air is gulped and strafed into the lungs.

Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

But the cords are cut, snip-snap, and tied just in time, and in an instant the shocking air is gulped and strafed into the lungs.

Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

I expected great information from such an assemblage, but 'twas but a snip-snap of talk -- remarks passed from one to another, but served as it were on massy plate -- long words, and too many of 'em.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Here is now come a snip-snap letter of reproach from Lady Ossory for not having answered her letter of compliments upon Lady Caroline's delivery.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

He trussed himself up, when he was angry or displeased, and sharp, snip-snap came his words, rather like scissors.

The Lost Girl 1907

Here is now come a snip-snap letter of reproach from Lady Ossory for not having answered her letter of compliments upon Lady Caroline's delivery.

George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

As Boswell remarks, he never uses a parenthesis; and his style, though ponderous and wearisome, is as transparent as the smarter snip-snap of Macaulay.

Samuel Johnson Leslie, Stephen 1878

As Boswell remarks, he never uses a parenthesis; and his style, though ponderous and wearisome, is as transparent as the smarter snip-snap of Macaulay.

Samuel Johnson Leslie Stephen 1868

But that shall not be the case, for I will rise with the sun to-morrow morning, and with my little bill-hook and snip-snap, I will level all these briars with the ground.

Ami des enfants. English John Bewick 1769

Where all is so so-so, and below par, it is perhaps invidious to single out any for hon'ble mention; but loyalty as a British subject obliges me to speak favourably of a concern lent by Her Majesty the QUEEN, and representing a bombastical youth engaged in a snip-snap with a meek and inoffensive schoolfellow, who supports himself on one leg, and is occupied in sheltering his nose behind his arm, until his widowed and aged mother can arrive to rescue her beloved offspring from his grave crisis.

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895