The river here narrowed considerably, and the navigation became very dangerous, on account of the extreme swiftness of the current, which rushed by at a tremendous pace, carrying large snags, or pieces of timber, with it, a blow from one of which would have sent the little Ghita flying.
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt
On such minute little snags and hooks, do all the "difficulties" of philosophy hang.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
It has a lot of snags and sweepers and buried stuff.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough