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1. Obviously, she’d made an impact on the county, and the court wasn’t going to let her brother's step in and snatch up the land simply for resale value
2. At first the probes were quick to snatch up a small drink
3. As the grip slackened from around his neck, he managed to lunge to the right and snatch up the gun before Alistair could kick it out of reach
4. safe and snatch up the file cases
5. and snatch up the Gazelle, retreating to the water
6. The niece said the same, and, more: "You must know, Master Nicholas"--for that was the name of the barber--"it was often my uncle's way to stay two days and nights together poring over these unholy books of misventures, after which he would fling the book away and snatch up his sword and fall to slashing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed four giants like four towers; and the sweat that flowed from him when he was weary he said was the blood of the wounds he had received in battle; and then he would drink a great jug of cold water and become calm and quiet, saying that this water was a most precious potion which the sage Esquife, a great magician and friend of his, had brought him
7. He committed the murder and couldn't take the money, and what he did manage to snatch up he hid under a stone
8. Dunk could gladly have throttled him for that alone, but the man heard them coming and was quick to snatch up his bow
9. Why that? Why not some other weapon? But since he had been contemplating his plan and preparing himself for it for a whole month, he would snatch up anything like a weapon that caught his eye
10. Though Smurov, with the captain's hat in his hand, was crying bitterly too, he managed, as he ran, to snatch up a piece of red brick that lay on the snow of the path, to fling it at the flock of sparrows that was flying by
11. It seems to me that if a man should snatch up a bar of red-hot iron and hold it tight in his hand to test his fortitude, and after struggling for ten seconds with insufferable pain end by overcoming it, such a man would, I fancy, go through something like what Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch was enduring during those ten seconds
12. Prince Andrew longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless little creature, but dared not do so