Thing pursued "with forks and hope"

Usage examples of snark.

And all the time the Snark was rushing madly along toward Tanna, in the New Hebrides.

At every roll the Snark shook overboard a bunch or so of bananas and cocoanuts, or a basket of limes.

Even if she had brought two or three snarks, none were likely to be at full power if she had had to confine a hundred people in a burning building.

Instead, he fled, using all the speed he could muster, dodging among the trees, grateful that snarks had such a limited range.

She held the gadget tightly, too tightly for him to pry it loose without serious concentration, and she had two more snarks with her besides.

Runagate just shouted in my ear that he knows all about snarks and boojums.

All of which was too much for Wada, who went daffy, and who finally quitted the Snark on the island of Ysabel, going ashore for good in a driving rain-storm, between two attacks of fever, while threatened with pneumonia.

Somehow the Snark is losing energy by separating quarks and antiquarks along its path and making them into forward jets, just as a normal charged particle loses energy by separating electrons from atoms.

The day the Snark sailed into Suva, in the Fijis, we made out the Cambrian going out.

And yet, at the moment of writing this, Charmian is in her stateroom at the typewriter, Martin is cooking dinner, Tochigi is setting the table, Roscoe and Bert are caulking the deck, and the Snark is steering herself some five knots an hour in a rattling good sea--and the Snark is not padded, either.

In this mood of mixed apprehension and annoyance, she followed the others to the camp, where Snark put the specimens into the analyzers, and then back to the rock pile.

But there was no way we could take Pollard and the Desmonds through the swamp, keep an eye out for predators, and hope to make up any ground on the Snark -- and of course I couldn't leave them alone while we went after the Snark with Marx.

But there was no way we could take Pollard and the Desmonds through the swamp, keep an eye out for predators, and hope to make up any ground on the Snark -- and of course I couldn't leave them alone while we went after the Snark with Marx.

And the man was a little short Negro with an alto horn that Dean said obviously lived with his grandmother just like Tom Snark, slept all day and blew all night, and blew a hundred choruses before he was ready to jump for fair, and that's what he was doing.

I asked Dobby if they had given names to the kakapos on the island, and he instantly came up with four of them: Matthew, Luke, John and Snark.