But one such insider dismissed the criticism as "standard snipping."

Turning, he saw it, a silver snipping daintily afloat; and not far away, an early star.

Jethri approached the next plant in line, located the fragile new growth, and set to snipping away the old.

(Almost perfect: being on basic cable requires some snipping of language here and there.)

Couple those slicers with kitchen shears for snipping herbs.

Members of this group had sharp beaks for snipping off leaves to eat, and a very small frill.

Keep the soil barely moist all the time, and groom the plant regularly by snipping away the faded blossoms at the base of the stalk.

Bloom period always starts by early July in my central New Jersey garden and, with a judicious snipping of spent blossoms, goes into late August.

The snipping of wire cutters vibrated faintly in the air, like the chirps of an android cricket.

It was a bit frightening, like the snipping of his last umbilical, but it had to happen if he andDahak were to have a chance of success.

After this snipping the beta-amyloid peptide is released into the space outside the neuron and begins to stick to other beta-amyloid peptides.

He photographed civil rights events during the 1960's despite "dogs snipping at my heels, tear gas, bayonets at the back," he once recalled in an interview.

I drew up short when I saw Toni snipping yellow and white daisies that she brought to Jory in a small milkglass vase.

Wilhelm Fleiss, for example, believed that sexual hang-ups stemmed from irregularities in the nasal cavity and that a little judicious snipping could set everything straight.

In a cobweb-frosted window corner a faded FOR RENT sign hung by one ear from a snipping of tape.

Impressive among the free-service sites is i-drive.com (www.idrive.com), which, besides storage space, offers an inventive "clippings" utility for snipping items like coupons and articles for later viewing.

There is hardly a sound, except for the snipping of hair, the buzzing of razors and the giggling of a schoolboy whose neck tickles as it is being shaved.

Still others sprinkle commercials throughout their programming, although they rarely run amok the way many local stations do in the United States, snipping and slashing and leaving film makers to wonder what happened.

The trick to starting them indoors is to minimize disturbance by transplanting little plugs of seedlings to four-inch pots and snipping off the weaker stems a bit later, as the plants grow.

Poland's censor, still officially ensconced in the Government bureaucracy, reached for his scissors 2,528 times last year, and 80 percent of his snipping was done in 20 mostly non-Communist, church-related newspapers.

A steady, conversational hum underscored the sound of the glue gun and the snipping of scissors across a length of decorative trimming, as the women joked or complimented a well-made bow.

Mr. Tan, who likes to describe himself as a musical tailor, had spent a frantic week snipping notes, scissoring whole bars, raising and lowering decibels and pitches like so many hemlines.

His signature on the contract (plus the payment of a sum of money) set a monstrous business machine into motion, and one of the least confounding consequences was the snipping of thirty minutes from ancient history.

Little extra-dramatic literary output by Daborne has survived; he did contribute verse to The Nipping or Snipping of Abuses, a 1614 collection by John Taylor, the Water Poet.

Joakim Noah, Florida's 6-foot-11 center, shouted, pulling a bloody bandage from his left elbow as he and his teammates mounted a ladder one by one for the official and ritualistic snipping of the nets.

You mean this snip of a boy is a female?

A security system could be gone with the snip of a wire.

Also who shall ask her to wife for the son of a snip?

He was just listening, and every once in a while he'd look at that snip of a girl.

Others are simply art directors who walk him through every snip.

Of course I had to buy, a snip at 1 pound.

But his death was another snip to the league's roots.

"A few snips more should do it," came the voice from below.

There were some snips of scissors, and he was free.

The first snip, he was beginning to believe, had been only partially successful.

Once the snips are identified, they can be used for many purposes.

Her snip of a nose, which she had always wished was longer.

As he made the last snip, her slacks fell to the floor.

But even then, he will just take a snip.

"Got beat by a little snip of a girl, did you?

He was a good looking bay horse with a white snip on his nose.

"He very likely was, and I wish you'd mentioned that snip of talk before."

However, the treatment is certainly no snip at £3,500 a time.

But the way things are, here on the snip, I think this had better be all of it."

The following types of snips are available in different configurations.

And so it goes until the florist finally gives them the big snip.

This snip could be in free-fall, for all we feel.

Markings were a snip, and a streak on the face.

That snip trying to make us think she's popular?

To fit the current mode, it should be no more than a snip of a slip.

Snip off the end to leave a very small hole.

He snipped a straight line up the middle of the third page.

Five women and one man are in the classroom, snipping away.

She has even been snipped out of a photograph taken after her wedding.

"Snip out a piece of skin and make the test."

He brought a section of hair up between two fingers, snipped.

There may be a few more ribbons to snip in coming years.

The case can only be opened by snipping the tie.

Should those scenes be snipped out, too, in case they give someone bad ideas?

You got time to snip off that thread and take a look at his data?

On second thought, maybe you ought to snip out your own image and leave his there.

They closed the covers and snipped off the rest of the hair.

He looked as if someone had snipped the wires holding him together.

"And here I see the corners that were snipped off."

Once I caught her with scissors, trying to snip off my hair.

Then, one day, word was passed along that the big tubes were snipped.

The inspector said the four apparently also snipped off some of the girl's hair.

In the second incident, which occurred two weeks later, the head of the black child was snipped out.

He snipped the wire and left the mines in place.

"I said it's good, but why not just go in and snip?"

They were loose threads, and the time had come to snip them.

He kept on snipping stems and listened without looking around.

If the gene is not found, they snip off another segment and begin again.

When an order comes in, they snip open the bag and finish the dish.

As soon as she snipped it everything started to move.