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She and snapped
She snapped at him.
She snapped five tenths of a second off the mark set by Helen Shipley, of Wellsley College, in the National A.A.U. meet in Columbus, Ohio.
She collapsed against me, as if everything inside her snapped.
She snapped after reading about one infidelity in a newspaper.
She played a character named " Nikki Cappelli " who had trouble with a snapped spaghetti strap on her tank top as she testified before a panel holding broadcast censorship hearings.
She also wrote a story under the pen name Dracula Smith, which was illustrated within the Fan club magazine and is rumoured to be waiting to be snapped up for production.
She snapped out of it when she accidentally struck a homeless man with her car.

She and .
She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
She didn't move or say anything.
She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.
She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.
She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.
She sat down at the table, shaking her head.
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
`` She doesn't want you now.
She breathed.
She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.
She too began to weep.
She crouched aside as bullets beat at the portal, chewing into the planks.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She had helped him change his mind.
She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
She studied it for a long time.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She was quick.
She brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.
She swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.

snapped and .
Oso reached up, jerked the buck from the bale and snapped his neck.
tree branches snapped as she pushed them ruthlessly away from her.
I've drawn his fangs '', he snapped.
His head snapped round and he reeled back, crashing into the table where his buddies were sprawling.
`` Now stay with me, Kitty '', he snapped irritably.
The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.
`` Not the least bit '', Arlene snapped.
He snapped to alertness at Andy's entrance.
He snapped.
Cady snapped the Venetian blind shut and slammed himself down before the typewriter, rolled in a fresh sheet, and gave his letter the same savage attention he bestowed on a salesman who needed to have the bucket taken off his thick head.
Or against her back, pressed on the column of vertebrae, which held her so magnificently straight and unyielding, until the segments of bone made tiny sharp cracking noises, like the snapped stem of a tulip.
But, to put it bluntly, nothing snapped.
While deploying a heat-flow experiment that had burned up with the Lunar Module Aquarius on Apollo 13 and had been attempted without success on Apollo 15, a cable was inadvertently snapped after getting caught around Young's foot.
Games shipped with plastic card overlays that snapped in over the keypad.
On January 6, 2007, the Beavers ' men's basketball team snapped a 207-game losing streak to Division III schools, beating Bard College 81 – 52.
On January 13, 2007, the Caltech women's basketball team snapped a 50-game losing streak, defeating the Pomona – Pitzer Sagehens 55 – 53.
On October 22, 2008, the soccer team snapped a 201-game losing streak with a last-second goal against Cal Lutheran University, 1 – 0.
* Knife blades: the blade of a ceramic knife will stay sharp for much longer than that of a steel knife, although it is more brittle and can be snapped by dropping it on a hard surface.
During the game, Atlanta had their 7-game win streak snapped by Florida 5 – 4, meaning the Rockies could reduce their magic number to 3 with a win.
Despite making the race very close, in the 161st game of the season, the Dodgers snapped their five-game losing streak – and the Rockies ' five-game winning streak – to clinch the West title.
:" It was believed that the hold of the brainwashing over the cognitive processes of a cult member needed to be broken – or " snapped " as some termed it – by means that would shock or frighten the cultist into thinking again.

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