When the sun accepted the wind's challenge to contest for the traveler's cloak, I dare say all the spectators of the novel highway robberythe moon, the stars, the trees, birds and beasts, and others that the fable does not mentiontook odds that the wind would snatch off the wayfarer's garment in triumph.

At her house society was always sure to meet the European noblemen traveling in the country, the quasi official agents of France, England, and Austria, accredited to the new Confederacy, the generals of the Southern armies on leave in the city, and the political leaders able to snatch an evening's relaxation.

The fact is that in the vast flux of destiny which is involved in such a war as the present, and which no argument can really adequately represent, we are fain to snatch at some neat phrase, however superficial, by way of explanation.

Nor can it be denied that the commercial interest in England, if not deliberately intending to provoke war with Germany, has not been at all sorry to seize this opportunity of laying a rival Power lowif only in order to snatch the said rival's trade.

The nun tried to snatch it up, but I held her arm gently and forcibly, saying in French: "No.

As soon as he could speak, he said, "O you gods, why do you make us love your goodly gifts, and then snatch those gifts away?"

After the King had gone, all the yeomen of the archer guard came crowding around Robin, and Little John, and Will, and Allan, to snatch a look at these famous fellows from the mid-country; and with them came many that had been onlookers at the sport, for the same purpose.

I'm going out and snatch nursing bottles from kids asleep in their prams....

Soon we return arm'd with a father's power, To snatch our sister from your fearful arts.

Whither awaywhither away? Into the world, the glorious world, To gain the prize, of the brave and bold, To snatch the crown from the age of gold Into the worldinto the world!

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.

But as peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain.

I have read, or tried to read your Surius, and Alban Butler, and so forthand they seemed to me bats and assesOne really pitied the poor saints and martyrs for having such blind biographerssuch dunghill cocks, who overlooked the pearl of real human love and nobleness in them, in their greediness to snatch up and parade the rotten chaff of superstition, and self-torture, and spiritual dyspepsia, which had overlaid it.

No rich man had stepped in to snatch, in spite of all his own flocks and herds, at the poor man's own ewe- lamb, and set him barking at all the world, as many a poor lover has to do in defence of his morsel of enjoyment, now turned into a mere bone of contention and loadstone for all hungry kites and crows.

The earliest form of literature is the ballad, which is the germ of all subsequent forms of poetry, for it has in itself all their elements: the lyric, for it was first chanted to some stringed instrument; the epic, for it tells a tale, often of solemn and ancient report; the dramatic, for its actors are ever ready to start forward into life, snatch the word from the mouth of the narrator, and speak in their own persons.

"I am so happy, so intensely happy, that I am afraid lest the gods should be jealous and snatch my happiness from me.

You see, I want youI want you all to myself, for every hour of the day and night instead of for just the few minutes I've the good luck to snatch.

To-morrow I will speak with you again, I will endeavour to snatch a brand from the burning.

'Tis in the Lions pawe, and who dares snatch it?

Taking only sufficient time to snatch down one of the pistols that hung at the head of his berth, he flung out into the great cabin, to find it as black as night, the lantern slung there having been either blown out or dashed out into darkness.

cried Agnes, breathlessly, springing forward to snatch the paper from his hand.

God knows how all this infernal tangle is going to pan out, but we may as well snatch one evening's happiness out of it while we've got the chance.

" The child who had been given the name "green-eyes" was supposed to jump up and snatch the pie tin before Billy had finished counting to ten.

Then the bonga girl began to cry and called her father-in-law and mother-in-law and said "Father, listen, the father of your grandson has turned me out, you must do your work yourselves to-day;" then she took her child on her hip and left the house; and they ran after her and begged her to return, but she would not heed; and they tried to snatch the child from her

No, not fear, in the sense of timidity, but rather a realization of the immense perils of this situation, and an up-springing of the heart to meet those perils, to face and overcome them, and from out their very maw to snatch rewards beyond all calculation.