84 examples of nabbed in sentences

It skipped the Judge, but it caught poor Uncle Lenox, and now it has nabbed me!

"You, Boone, know the place; stand by me and I'll see that we are not nabbed; but you've made a nice mess of the affair.

"Perhaps if they concealed themselves," I suggested, "the fellow might venture back and be nabbed.

"We're nabbed, Ford.

One person shone a torch on the wet banks of the riverbed, blinding the vision of the frog, which would stop dead in its tracks, while another nabbed it with his bare hands from behind.

Maybe I'd better skirmish around a little, instead of running the risk of being nabbed before I can have an explanation.

He told us all not to say anything, because maybe, the old man might find out that he was going to be nabbed and go away.

We'd had a pretty bad time with crooks around these parts, and them that was nabbed in Sour Creek got away; about two out of three, before they was brought to me at Woodville.

And so we surrounded the cabin and nabbed our game.

You come away without him and let him stay behind to be nabbed by that devil Whistlin' Dan.

One of them nabbed him quickly and ran off with him; but he did not bite hard.

If you hadn't come along as you did, these fellows would have nabbed me sooner or later, and probably I'd have lost the claims any way.

you'll be nabbed.

After he nabbed them, Chief of Police Stewart discovered, with the aid of Department of Justice agents, that he had two dangerous radicals marked for "watching" in Department files in Washington.

The story'll be, he was getting into my window when I waked up and nabbed him.

"'Taint's no use tacklin' them others," he whispered to the clerk, "for if I ever nabbed a rich one she'd make things lively for mebut I guess it's the poor one that's got 'em, anyway.

I nabbed her last night," he said, promptly, "but she had covered her tracks pretty well.

"I suppose you know the winner of every race," he remarked, quizzically watching Joe Archer, who was blushing and as uneasy as a schoolgirl when nabbed in the enjoyment of an illicit love-letter.

Some good fellow nabbed by a bailiff, or planted by his mistress.

PLAIN CUSTARD.Heat a pint of milk to boiling, and stir in a tablespoonful of cornstarch nabbed smooth in a little milk; let the milk and starch boil together till they thicken; then cool and add one well-beaten egg and two tablespoonfuls of sugar.

He nabbed him, chucked him in a chicken-coop and stood guard for an hour while Sada rode gloriously.

An' she dragged me awa' to a shop, an' I had to buy her a silly-like wee tie that cost me eichteen-pence-ha'penny; an' then she wanted a lang ride on the caur, an' that burst fivepence; an' she nabbed the remainin' bawbee for a keepsake.'

"We have nabbed them," replied the boy.

It would be manifestly cruel and clearly unnecessary to describe the forces which impelled the psychic wave of suggestion that inundated the schooleven to the youth of the "B" class, with his head under the desk, looking for a penciland gave every demon there gleeful knowledge that the teacher had nabbed a note and would probably read it aloud.

He was a giant in strength and stature, and used to boast that he could visit "any hen-roost in the village every night in the week, and carry off a dozen chickens each time, without being nabbed."

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