507 collocations for snatching

He snatched away his hands as a suppressed cry went up from the others.

" Absolutely purple in the face, Mr. DIBBLE snatched his hat from a chair just as the Ritualistic organist was about to sit upon it, and was on the point of hurrying wrathfully from the room, when the entrance of Gospeler SIMPSON arrested him.

May I see it?" As the official hesitated, Henshaw had snatched the paper, a folded note, and rapidly ran his eye through its contents.

Then Ulysses suspecting some foul witchcraft, snatched his sword, and his bow, and commanded Eurylochus instantly to lead him to the place.

Telling her to stay where she was, I snatched up my gun, and ran toward the Pit.

Besides these, there is another means, but that must be employed by a medical man; namely, scarifying the gumsan operation always safe, and which, when judiciously performed, and at a critical opportunity, will often snatch the child from the grasp of death.

The mere fact of being on the spot, of course, in itself was a great thing; and when I knew that I could be called in a moment, as soon as he was awake and wanted me, I felt capable, even in the dark, chill morning twilight, to snatch an hour or two's sleep.

She snatched up the book which King had left with her, and forced herself to read.

Life and property being alike ephemeral, there was no hope left but to snatch a moment of enjoyment, before the outstretched hand of destiny should fall upon its victims.

" Some months after she became ungovernablethrew plates about, and snatched caps from the heads of other women who looked at her lord in public places.

He rushed at her, snatched the letter out of her hand, and went to the window with it.

For Christ's sake, let me go!" "Look here, Jack, is the little bag yours?" Jack wet his dry lips and nodded "Yes." The Colonel snatched up the smaller bag and thrust it into the man's hands.

He was very near her as she disentangled an obtruding vine from her garments, and before she was aware of his purpose he had audaciously snatched a kiss from her astonished lips.

In wild haste she snatched her rifle; holding it in one hand, afraid to let it slip out of her grasp for a moment, casting a last fearful look in the direction whither the lion had gone, she began slipping down.

"The chap saw," he thought, in mid-air; "beastly cleverall the time" He landed on the spear-shaft, in a pile of dry rubbish, snatched up the weapon, and ran, dimly conscious of a quiet scurrying behind and above him, of silent men tumbling after, and doors flung violently open.

Without stopping to think, I whipped out a pencil from my pocket, and snatched away a piece of white paper from underneath the small dish of candied fruit in front of me.

Under this pretence he drew her aside to a spot upon the northern side of the Forum, afterward called the "Nova Tabernce" and here, snatching up a knife from a butcher's stall, he cried: "In this way only can I keep thee free!"and so saying, stabbed her to the heart.

With a sudden resolution he snatched the candle from the mantelpiece and held the flame to White's finger.

Upon this, seeing his prey like to get away from him, Captain Morgan snatched a pistol out of his sling, and resting it for an instant across his arm, fired at the flying Spaniard, and that with so true an aim that, though the street was now full of people, the other went tumbling over and over all of a heap in the kennel, where he lay, after a twitch or two, as still as a log.

One half of the house may meet early in the morning, and snatch an opportunity to expel the other, and the greater part of the nation may, by this stratagem, be without its lawful representatives.

She snatched a coat and hat, and, going out, closed the door quietly behind her.

The move saved him, and as the other stumbled over his body, pitching headlong into the trail, he snatched forth his revolver.

The husbandman, having seen him previously advancing, snatches up his arms.

For now uplifted to a rosy zone of acquiescence, you partook incuriously at table of nectar and ambrosia, and noted abroad, without any surprise, that you trod upon a more verdant grass than usual, and that someone had polished up the sun a bit; and, in fine, you snatched a fearful joy from the performance of the most trivial functions of life.

We snatched a hasty morsel or two, and then hurried on, in order to complete the second half of the road before sunset.

507 collocations for  snatching