The air was of that invigorating coolness that makes you think of cider in its sociable stage of incipient snappiness.
"The River and I"
John G. Neihardt
But Kewpie had trained down at last to a hundred and sixty-five pounds and was handling his weight and bulk with a new snappiness, and a few days after Ned became a part of the scrub outfit Kewpie was elevated to the first team, and a much disgruntled Holmes took his place on the second.
"The Turner Twins"
Ralph Henry Barbour
What is called vivacity abroad may easily degenerate into snappiness by the hearth.
"The Sowers"
Henry Seton Merriman