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1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bvij He redeth them so fearse, And doth theire workes so snapingly, And snatchingly rehearse.

1884 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 13 When was ‘Good-bye’ said quite snappingly and briefly and with abruptness?

1896 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 1 Numerous dogs of every breed and aggressiveness career snappingly about.

1976 Gramophone Dec. 1016/1 The second subject [is] held in a more or less strict tempo but flecked with fine, subliminally caught colours, the mordents now fluttering like spread acciaccaturas, now expressive, now snappingly exact.

1978 Gramophone Apr. 1756/2 Bernstein, as one would expect, is ideally alive and snappingly rhythmic at the opening of the last movement's allegro section.