snappish

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The two were laughing: Mrs. Gum seemed in a less depressed state than usual, and the other less snappish.

His sharp teeth and snappish ways, and the bigness of his appearance when the fins are all displayed, keep the little fishes away.

When her feelings were touched she had a way of growing curt and terse, sometimes even snappish.

I dislike Mr. Cleremont; he is always saying snappish things, and is never happy, no matter how merry we are.

But as the romantically impatient and sometimes a bit snappish Mrs. Penniman would say, he had never gone far.

THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSON

When Zip grew older, he became so cross and snappish, that he had to be chained up in the woodshed in front of his little house.

There never was a time when he Wasn't snappish, when he wouldn't rather bite a body than not.

The recent series of feverishly sleepless nights disposed him to snappish irritability or the thirst for tenderness.

He was as near snappish as he dared to be, vindicating his military character.

THE BARRIERALLEN FRENCH

As the weeks wore on toward summer, Blackie became every day more snappish.

WILD FOLKSAMUEL SCOVILLE

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