As he warmed with his subject, and tried to shew us how the tiger must have pounced on the man, he would let go and use his hands in illustration; the old elephant would give another heave, and the fat little man would make another frantic grab at the patient mahout's hair.

There was a calm at the time: the hostile grabs were towed under the galleys' stern and opened a heavy fire.

The three leeward grabs were towed up within range, and for the next two or three hours the Harrington engaged all six, almost single-handed.

At four o'clock Sylvia filed out with the other children to the cloakroom, but there was not the usual quick, practised grab, each for his own belongings.

With a look of fiendish hatred, instead of returning blow for blow, Thad made a sudden grab and tore Bill's crutch out of the hand which had felt no impulse to use it in defense against his able-bodied antagonist.

"Now you have done it!" cried the captain, standing up and making a vain grab.

1. Always be sure to get what belongs to you, and make most vigorous grabs for everything that belongs to everybody else.