snaffling

Its circular structure reinforces the memento mori aspect, even if, these days, one might balk a little at the cheerful typecasting of young girls hoovering up all those flowers, not to mention all the young men in turn snaffling the young girls, “every one.”

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Its circular structure reinforces the memento mori aspect, even if, these days, one might balk a little at the cheerful typecasting of young girls hoovering up all those flowers, not to mention all the young men in turn snaffling the young girls, “every one.”

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? 2009

But Lassiter was not to be thwarted, snaffling the chapters from Hardinge and secretly showing them to her own editor at Macmillan.

Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy 2011

The scene where the mother is snaffling bites out of a big chocolate bar hidden under the blankets while her children are going hungry is quite shocking.

The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Either way, it all ended up with a bunch of us snaffling some red wine from Moominhanna's and heading back to my hotel room to drink it (or -- * ahem* -- spill it) in a re-enactment of the åwesome Acon (including Toni asleep on the floor, popping up occasionally at the side of the bed like a vampire meerkat.)

Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Moderns may consider Plymouth-born Trevor Francis the west's most famous, but he never actually played for Argyle, Birmingham snaffling him at 16.

Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating 2011

Either way, it all ended up with a bunch of us snaffling some red wine from Moominhanna's and heading back to my hotel room to drink it (or -- * ahem* -- spill it) in a re-enactment of the åwesome Acon (including Toni asleep on the floor, popping up occasionally at the side of the bed like a vampire meerkat.)

Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009

Yet that the singular talent of snaffling up any half chance that comes your way no longer seems to have a home in international soccer has left some to question whether this sport has lost sight of its true purpose.

The Fading Art of Goal Scoring 2010

The story is awful, although the central idea is an ingenious, and seemingly legal, method for snaffling bank funds by exploiting a weakness in their checking account credit systems.

Ellery Queen's Crookbook (1974) Adam Roberts 2010

The story is awful, although the central idea is an ingenious, and seemingly legal, method for snaffling bank funds by exploiting a weakness in their checking account credit systems.

Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010