"Quite well, thank you, Monk," replied Scully; "but I cannot conceive why you should snip a syllable from my name, unless you wish to add it to your own."
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
To think that a young snip, just married, without real experience in home-making, should walk away with a prize of this kind!
"The Model of a Judge"
William Morrison
The Reverend Arthur sighed, and half turned away to snip off two or three tendrils from a vine-shoot above his head.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn