And now, parting, you snap the thread and let the flowers drop on the dust!

I could pull it completely out, unwind him, but instead, with a gentle twist, I snap the thread at his chest.

Only a week ago the Court physician had told him that any violence or mental shock might snap the thread of existence.

And then outside the tent some little woods noise snaps the thread.

A letter brought in by the office-boy rudely snapped the thread of reflection.

Hel reached out her dead hand and snapped the thread.

He isn't drowned; but he is old, and the shock has gone pretty near to snapping the thread.

He snapped the thread of communication.

But invariably he snapped the thread of the supposition and turned with fiercer ardor to his work of preparation.

The voice snapped the thread.

"Is it so difficult a thing," she asked, "to snap the thread of life?