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Examples
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Snaffle bits commonly have a single jointed mouthpiece and act with a nutcracker effect on the bars, tongue and occasionally roof of the mouth.
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"We couldn't ask for a harder game in Europe, or even the world," said Smith, a man who has clearly never played a round of Knock The Feather off the Wine Glass with a 4ft Mallett While Graham the Starving Hungry Grizzly Bear Tries to Snaffle the Pepperami You've Got In Your Other Hand, which the Fiver can assure you is actually the hardest game in Europe, or even the world.
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Snaffle it up, then figuratively sit on it for ten years while the global market returns to some semblance of normality.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, I should really check my own canon before setting these exam questions. 2009
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Snaffle, of the mews hard by, a capital fellow for a song; Clinker, the ironmonger: all married gentlemen, and in the best line of business; Tressle, the undertaker, etc.
Mens Wives 2006
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Snaffle, he also disappeared, for Woolsey wished to make him answerable for the misbehaviour of Eglantine, and proposed to him the duel which the latter had declined.
Mens Wives 2006
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“Snaffle will mount you, and we can go one on each side of the ladies, if you like.”
Mens Wives 2006
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Guttlebury did not mind in the least how he was dressed, and had an aversion for horse exercise, nay a terror of it; and Snaffle never read any printed works but the ‘Racing Calendar’ or
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Lessons, as you did with the _Snaffle_; which indeed is the easier to be done of the two.
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The third day after the ball, Captain Snaffle again presented himself at
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On the following morning the card of Captain Snaffle was handed to her, but she excused herself from appearing on the plea of indisposition.
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