It was late evening: Betty was nailing up a trailing rose, and he was standing by the ladder holding the nails and the snippets of scarlet cloth.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
She could not exist for ever among these snippets of oiled paper, live and die making lamp-shades.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The assumption was that the full scanning and digitizing of copyrighted books infringed copyright laws, even if only snippets were made freely available.
"Booknology: The eBook (1971-2010)"
Marie Lebert