let us get out of here," finally cried Laura, grabbing each of the other girls by an arm and running with them out into the more cheerful kitchen.

Despairingly Johnnie started to climb down from the car and go to their aid, but her uncle leaped to his feet clawing and grabbing to find a hold around Gray's waist, panting out, "Stay tharJohnnieI can fetch him.

she screamed, grabbing him by the scruff of the neck.

We could have games like potato-sack races and a big parade and a band or two, and...." "It sounds great!" said Scraps, leaping up, grabbing a chandelier and swinging from it while bursting into song: "A party is the thing to do whenever something pleases you!

Then, grabbing a huge net, she threw it over the two of them before they had any time to move out of the way.

Back and forth it went, to reveal none other than the Wicked Witch on her broomstick, grabbing for Graham as she passed him.

It was some time before she could furnish the astonished captain with full details, and she was pleased to find that his indignation led him to ignore the hair-grabbing episode, on which, to do her justice, she touched but lightly.

The first was compelled to climb a tree, which he did with some little difficulty, seeing that, while half of them pretended to boost him, the other half amused themselves by grabbing his legs and pulling him back three inches for every one inch he climbed (like the frog and the well in the mathematical problem).

Greed and grabbing.

She was always a selfish little cad, grabbing, and not really caring.

Johnny's brand of grabbing bored me.

By the time you'd read a leader in the Haste on the subject, you'd have got the impression that the strikers were Bolshevists helped by German money and aiming at a social revolution, instead of discontented, needy and greedy British workmen, grabbing at more money and less work, in the normal, greedy, human way we all have.

Clare, the ignorant, muddle-headed sentimentalist; Jane, reacting against this, but on her part grabbing and exploiting.

Grabbing an opportunity to to claim our right to reply, four of us who had just left took the opportunity to make a point.

In August of the same year he portrayed the brigands dividing the spoil and Prussia grabbing the lion's share, thus foreshadowing the inevitable conflict with Austria.

Grabbing up our guns, we got out through the rear and made a dash across the stable yard.

But he was desperate; also, he had been too long accustomed to grabbing things to which his conscience told him he had doubtful right or none.

Octavia says she thinks it rather hard my grabbing everybody like this, and she had wanted the senator for herself on our trip, so we have agreed to share him, and Tom says it is mean no one has been asked for him.

Never at any other time perhaps have conditions been so favourable in Canada for land-grabbing and land-speculation as they were then.

"'Not much,' says Yusuf, grabbing hold of it, trying to pull it off the cart.

" Immediately Kasheed Hassoun, and while his accomplice held them at bay with a revolver, had leaned across the table and grabbing Sardi by the throat had broken his neck.

I shrieked, grabbing the reins and pulling our cart full into the middle of the road.

Then, each of us grabbing a corner of the mattress, we hoisted the sufferer onto the machine, covering him with a sheet.

France must take up her traditional rôle (Of grabbing all she can do) So, JOHNNY, my boy, don't you annoy; Make room for DELONCLE, do!

As I did this Jone gave a jump that took him pretty near out of the boat, for two flies swished just over the bridge of his nose, and so close to his eyes as he was reading an interesting dialogue, and not thinking of fish or even of me, that he gave a jump sideways, which, if it hadn't been for the gilly grabbing him, would have taken him overboard.