spring-snecked love

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  • Though an expert swordsman, he had never been able to accomplish, the art of opening a gate, especially one of those gingerly balanced spring-snecked things that require to be taken at the nick of time, or else they drop just as the horse gets his nose to them.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

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