Which preposition to use with snatching

from Occurrences 205%

When I arrived at the village about sundown, the good people bestirred themselves, pitying my bedraggled condition as if I were some benumbed castaway snatched from the sea, while I, in turn, warm with excitement and reeking like the ground, pitied them for being dry and defrauded of all the glory that Nature had spread round about them that day.

of Occurrences 199%

Evadne was swinging in the hammock one golden summer afternoon, humming soft snatches of her old songs while she played with her aunt's pet black and tan.

at Occurrences 172%

But I can't, I simply can't snatch at an unfair advantage, however great the temptation.

out Occurrences 13%

He had found it snatched out of his hand, and, as he measured Sandersen, his heart rose.

of Occurrences 7%

To talk of them as flowers and fruit, as colour and perfume, as ivory and velvet, is to seem to forget the best of them, and the best part of loving them and being loved again; for that consisted in their comradeship, their enchanted comradeship, the sense of shared adventure, the snatching of a fearful joy together.

in Occurrences 7%

She had been snatched in a moment from parents, or those whom she regarded as such, and from a comfortable and happy, though humble home, to this dismal place.

for Occurrences 4%

The health of a people consists in that people's real unity, the organic life by which each section contributes freely and generously to the welfare of the whole, identifies itself with that welfare, and holds it a dishonour to snatch for itself the life which should belong to all.

through Occurrences 2%

Hurried as I was, I ventured to pause a moment to salute the lady's hand, which she snatched through the window with an admirable pretence of being offended at my presumption.

on Occurrences 2%

Such were the paths that Rome's great founder trod, When in a whirlwind snatched on high, He shook off dull mortality, And lost the monarch in the god.

during Occurrences 2%

It was more inviting than the manzanita-bushes and occasional sunflower-leaves at which he had snatched during the day.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond the certain portion allotted us by nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

as Occurrences 1%

(By that Lady Everard meant she had snatched as many of Mrs Mitchell's friends away as she thought desirable.)

to Occurrences 1%

Ideas about the adaptation of her dress-material, and the character she could bring out of, or get into, her part, mingled themselves together; and Irving's delicious old legend that she had read hundreds of times, entranced, as a child, repeated itself in snatches to her recollection.

with Occurrences 1%

Already, it drove before it fogs, salt scum and small birds; it also snatched with it the wild geese, threw them on end, and cast them toward the sea.

by Occurrences 1%

He became wary, less reckless, striving to obtain by diplomatic means that which he had once hoped to snatch by sheer force of personality.

without Occurrences 1%

To be snatched without a moment's warning from their homes and friends,hurried and crowded into the close slave wagon, regardless of age or sex, like sheep for the slaughter, to be carried they knew not whither; but, doubtless to the dismal rice swamp of the South,was to them an agony too great for endurance.

Which preposition to use with  snatching