Word: snarl
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From the ranked tribes there burst an answering roar. The metal snarl of that huge voice sent shivers into their hearts. Yet it was not any god, but only Joseph Griffo, the announcer, his voice trumpeted from the loud speaker whose horns overhung the ring. Tunney, who still had a bathrobe on, smiled slightly and bowed his head. Across from him sat a scowling, unshaven man with a towel over his shoulder. And around them rose the crowd...
...Golden Gate; from Siberia, Japan, Russia, Sweden, up to the Golden Gate. Gunboats came but the tars deserted, to wash gravel. Troops came, and the officers dropped sabres for shovels. The Law was a huge farce; in that roaring young state there was only brigandage and a snarl of paper in the courts. Yet Sutter shook the whole country and enriched lawyers for a generation to come. He sued California for 25 millions, the U. S. for 50 millions. Years passed before he got his decision. Immediately the gold-world paused in its shoveling to raze Sutter's remnant...
...playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian -this James A. Reed of Missouri-what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out! From stump to stump across the land, he would blast the imbecilities of the age. Sometimes his tongue would snarl, sometimes it would ripple with a silvery metaphor; then people would know why the Senate galleries were filled when "Jim" Reed spoke...
...illustrious company-Cicero, Seneca, Theocritus, Tibullus, sweet Petronius-in whose service his years had been passed. Disrobing that night, with Treasure Island open on the dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered...
...thoroughly agreeable. It simply provides for the removal of a universally recognized hindrance. In seizing the opportunity to eliminate this hindrance, those behind the bill are doing a favor appreciated by all interested in rowing as well as those who have come in actual contact with the present snarl of piles...