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1. The Instinct tingled his arms when the thought crossed his mind that he could easily snatch it
2. They, the timid, barking simpletons pick and snatch at blades of grass
3. Immediately Alan and Luray both had to jump to snatch Desa from the water just as another tentacle snapped like a whip in front of her face, missing a purchase on her throat by inches
4. “But no one feels a need to interrupt us if they overhear a snatch
5. 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
6. Grimes just managed to snatch the hammer away
7. “Sounds like a German patrol and it could be out to snatch one of us as a prisoner
8. ?' Was she taunting him again? Did he have to snatch her from the wind again?
9. ” “That’s just our secretary,” the pinch-faced lady said as she stepped forward to snatch Mrs
10. The bombers then retreated through our covering fire and legging it back to our lines following the snatch party as the whole front seemed to come to life
11. “Sorry Billy Boy I quite forgot how many raids we had been on but you are a sort of good luck charm to me and anyway who wants to live forever?” We went over the top that night and I was one of the riflemen and Frank had his homemade cosh a pistol and some bombs he was part of the snatch party that was once again led by Lt Pearson
12. We edged our way forward across ‘No Man’s Land’ and I stopped with Ted Wallace as the snatch party crawled on towards the German wire and the front line trench
13. I opened fire and just kept shooting as the snatch party came hurtling back through us making their way back to our lines
14. Later on when the couriers had managed to snatch some time, Alf was now waiting in Mazerati’s
15. I couldn’t leave the house because there was no way of telling where Devil was hiding, waiting for my meaty backside and big juicy calves to take one step outside of the back door so that he could snatch me up and feast upon me until he had his fill
16. He shall snatch them away, and from you they shall be taken
17. She nodded and grabbed the bag, grasping it to her chest as though he might snatch it back again
18. She would let me get all the way to the apartment building door before rushing in to snatch me away
19. Paralyzed into statue-like immobility, she now saw as if in a dream, her love, snatch from the hands of a defender close by, a bow and an arrow, which was launched with a quickness almost beyond perception
20. Burn off the snatch and bag missions
21. I storm up to him and try to snatch the paper from his hands, but he holds it up, high above my head so I can’t reach it unless I jump, and I won’t jump
22. There was little opportunity to talk while we either rode or ran since the wind would snatch away any words we tried to shout
23. I know! I am a student, and every day I must sit and listen only to those things which the Overlord—indeed, even the Emperor himself—deems necessary for me to know! And you, the workers and merchants who are the lifeblood of this city! The taxes taken from you snatch the very food from your children’s mouths
24. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing
25. What is indeed evident, with certainty, is that the author tries to show equilibrium and clarity as someone who teaches openness and aspires to provoke “a disposition to snatch a lesson from life”
26. I feel a harshness snatch my tender hand
27. In the end, I snatch my hand from him
28. “I want that …” I take in a lungful of the scent and snatch my hand from Sean
29. They snatch their victims, and a few Sylvan torture them just above rooftop height, amplifying their screams, while the rest Shield them
30. Pain shoots upwards from his leg to his whole body, a jagged series of blows which snatch the breath from his throat
31. No one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand
32. The instant I step into it I want you to snatch me back
33. The law and the prophets were until John; and after that the Kingdom of God is preached and all press to enter it and those who exert them- 7 selves snatch it away
34. He answered and said to them I told you and you believe not and the deeds that I do in my Father's name bear witness 29 to me; But you believe not because you are not of my sheep as I said to you; And my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they come after me and I give them eternal life; and they shall not perish forever nor shall any man snatch them out of my hands
35. always reaching out to snatch at the rails or the rigging, often
36. Either can snatch command if they detect any problem
37. less-than-respectable people who’d snatch a little white child without remorse? What was I
38. Miles scrambled to his feet and charged her way, almost overtaking her, but the door closed before he could snatch her
39. (which, I granted her, was true) and how Jan had tried to snatch her bag out of her hands and
40. Edwin was starving (he hadn’t eaten a thing since lunchtime) and so entered the fray without hesitation; but he only managed to snatch a couple of grains before he was barged aside by a plump, speckled hen
41. "The first time, during the Titan war, the Ophiotaurus was in fact slain by a giant ally of the Titans, but thy father, Zeus, sent an eagle to snatch the entrails away before they could be tossed into the fire
42. But there was something that was worrying her, Americus was very wise and powerful and, with enough time, was capable of finding a counter-conjuration that would snatch the girl from the claws of the death, so she had to insure herself that such an event should not happen
43. Leonardo thought of using an invisibility charm, this way he might bring over and snatch the pole that was the instrument of his power
44. You catch a grenade rolling toward your foot, snatch it up, and let it fly out of the patio window, shrapnel shoots back in, you throw up an arm to block the bigger bits
45. His real power was the fact that he could snatch people’s faces
46. Racing round trying to snatch his shorts off two fully dressed guys would make him look utterly stupid, so he took a textbook from his knapsack and read it quietly, to the amusement of his audience and irritation of his attackers, who were now the ones looking foolish
47. sure they would snatch away the money off me
48. He would snatch Hu Lyang - if he could get him on his own…
49. And to all who follow my teaching I give eternal life; they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand
50. I snatch naps like a panther watching beside the trail for a deer to come by
1. "The shuttlecraft!" he came bounding to her and snatched the phone from her head
2. " There were about 200 Euro The man snatched at the bills but Theo drew back
3. His yard boy, who was friendly with Estwig, though half a decade younger, ran a few blocks after them, then snatched off and waved his shorts as they rumbled out of sight
4. A bloody mary popped into existence on the bar as her hand snatched by
5. Herndon got back over there for the service and found the family in an uproar because the disease specialist they called had snatched the body off to the Kassikan for study and Ernesto's remains were now somewhere in the air over the Gengee arm, heading for the tunnel in the cargo net of a native floater, a lighter-than-air mobile plant
6. It was a hunter, from the shadows by the brush Alan hid in, it snatched a victim out of a flock of about ten two-foot long inglethors that came by
7. Once in the main auditorium, he saw that there was a cage on the stage lit by a single spotlight and in the cage he saw the crumpled form of a young woman, who was, he was sure, wearing the very same dress that his beloved had been wearing when she was so cruelly snatched away from him the previous evening
8. The lady rushed over and snatched the lighter out of Ruby's hand and turned off the gas
9. He snatched her up, spun her around, remembered doing that with Desa in front of the front door
10. "She's a bitch, she popped into a place I was staying and snatched the guy I was with right out of my arms
11. ' Mama snatched the
12. The lady rushed over and snatched the lighter
13. With her free hand she snatched it off and lay down on him, drawing the quilt over them
14. What would she find out? That the girl, or boy, for several Fenaises were recorded as male, snatched the scholarship certificate from the body before anyone noticed and made use of it, never knowing Tdeshi or Ava
15. Again, she fumbled with the keys for a minute before Rob snatched them from her and headed for the back door saying, "I'll take care of it Em
16. Killer’s shaking grip a second later, but Roman snatched it with the hands of a
17. whip, still attached to Patch’s neck—and Roman snatched the handle out of mid-
18. reached in, held his hand open for several seconds, and with two fingers snatched
19. He snatched it out of the air and broke it over his knee in one
20. She turned to Whimly and snatched his hand
21. Before he revealed his manhood to the others, he snatched the falling sheet, wrapping it around his waist
22. The magician snatched it and told the slave take her choice, among the jeers of the crowd
23. "Place the tents and packs behind the rocks and lets explore around the lee of the mount" Fizzicist then jumped onto a boulder to attempt a better view forward, but the gale snatched at his coat and pushed him over
24. "Never know the difference anyhow, leastways it won't be snatched by the wind when he collects it from the box eh!" he gave Mr
25. Clothier appeared with a dusting cloth, flapped it rapidly, glanced at the large brown envelope , and snatched it from poor Mr
26. snatched it back and shook his head
27. Shaking her head at this symbiology, she snapped The book shut, and snatched another nearby book, The Eternal Life Sequence, to read its preface Discussing the possibility that if “there already was An ‘elixir of life’ or ‘fountain of youth’ which Is guarded by a few—how would we know?
28. His arm snatched out to grab me around my waist and lifted me into his arms, to cradle me
29. Guessing her intention, Homer snatched away the sack that made such an effective sling
30. But it was hard to have my father’s love snatched away
31. Carius had reappeared and crouched down to deliver the food, which was hastily snatched away by a famished Penelope
32. “Understood! And most certainly!” The reptilian man hungrily snatched away the few extra coins and pocketed them with another leering grin
33. That was the last memory she had before the shadow of that Naud Cruiser blotted out the sky above them and they were snatched up like so many sheep for shearing
34. On their first day in the house, the Thane’s servant, a middle-aged woman named Jeslin, all but snatched Ayrim away from Barrin
35. She scanned the array of equipment hanging on the rear wall, moved towards it and snatched a shovel from the rack
36. For a moment she appeared to be frozen, completely motionless, then suddenly she snatched her hand way and stepped away from it
37. This time he snatched the mouse-bird out of the air and pulled it to the floor
38. A short while later Lt Howarth stopped by to see me he had brought some cigarettes and then I saw some mail in his hand and I nearly ran up and snatched it
39. She snatched the blanket and modestly drew it up to her chin
40. She snatched the piece of grass from her mouth and scrambled to her feet, feeling the blood burning her neck and cheeks
41. He snatched the reins from her hand and turned to Ed
42. Saldon snatched up his crossbow and loaded a quarrel
43. He snatched his hand back
44. He snatched the sheets off of Halon and checked them slightly
45. Balzar almost snatched the bag from Halon’s grasp and peered inside the bag
46. I edged closer to him; he was reading a comic book! I got angry then and snatched the
47. Victory was snatched at heavy cost, but a victory that can be attributed alone to Providence; for had the morale of the enemy been less impaired by starvation and disease, or had the fleet remained in Santiago Harbour, the amazing valour of the American soldiers must have gone for naught, and a reverse been entailed
48. "It's my doll-baby!" she cried, and snatched her up and kissed her
49. She snatched a few blades of grass, chewing them calmly until she finally lifted her head
50. I find it hard to believe he has not been snatched up yet
1. As soon as her husband throws off his shirt and tie upon returning home, she snatches the strips of clothing and begins to iron
2. Bush snatches up the cue ball, holds it up for John to see
3. Bolt snatches it away, retreats into a corner of the bus, face twitching wildly
4. sticks his weapon in Russ’ stomach, Russ deftly steps aside, grabs the barrel of the gun, gives the soldier a firm knee in the groin, snatches away the weapon, as the soldier collapses in a heap on the highway
5. John snatches up the weapon, puts the soldier in a headlock simultaneously and points the gun at his head
6. In my head I tried to sing snatches of songs from my childhood, but the stifling emptiness of this demonic and industrial womb-space drove the shapes and sounds of words and melodies into a frantic jumble of static
7. From the living room she can half hear snatches of an animated conversation
8. He passes the pub and snatches a glance through one of the windows
9. Just when I think he is about to be murdered he pulls a sheet of paper from his pocket and holds it out Major Danby snatches it and reads it then his head sags and he hands it to the C
10. owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them
11. snatches of the identity of the eyes’ owners
12. he remembered his old life only in faint snatches, like an almost forgotten dream
13. In snatches of conversation try to advance the fledgling’s basic skills
14. I was in a profound state of shock for a long time, but I remember little snatches of it
15. She gives me a patronizing look, the way people sometimes look at children when they act too adult, and snatches the flag from the branch
16. Uriah snatches at the flames, too quickly to be burned
17. snatches taught to him by his mother
18. Snatches of the nightmare had returned—especially when John and Mary died
19. Now, you tell me, would a lunatic be so fast, so efficient? And, when I caught snatches of her singing swiftly—so swiftly (for I had to filter other noises)—I heard her singing an alapana—the introductory improvisation part—unfettered but flimsy
20. It’s at that moment that someone snatches the glass from my hand
21. As darkness sweeps over the executioner once more, the bird snatches up the cane in its beak and bears it upwards, upwards, through the open roof of the Library and into the freedom of air
22. The man, who now introduced himself as Ezra, answered, “What little we were able to glean from them before we left, snatches of conversations and the like, was that a very large amount of water had swept through the lowest part of the desert somewhere north of here, moving sand and leaving debris to show where it had gone
23. Hurried snatches of overheard conversation while directing the multitude toward places to lay down weary heads had revealed to Moshe the circumstances that had brought many to this common patch of ground
24. 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and doesn't understand it the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart
25. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them
26. I can never quite remember the tune she used to sing, but occasionally, every now and again, I think I can hear snatches of it
27. from them before we left, snatches of conversations and the like, was that a very large amount
28. Hurried snatches of overheard
29. Everyone who hears the word of the kingdom and understands it not the evil one comes and snatches away the word that has been sown in his heart and this is that which was sown on the middle of the highway; But that which was sown on the rocks is he who hears the word and straightway receives 45 it with joy; only it has no root in his soul but his belief in it is for a time; and whenever there is distress or persecution because of a word he stumbles quickly; And that which was sown among the thorns is he who hears the word; and the care of this world and the error of riches and the rest of the other lusts enter and choke the word and it becomes without fruit; And that which was sown in good ground is he who hears my word in a pure and good heart and understands it and holds to it and bring out fruit with patience and produce either a hundredfold or sixtyfold or thirty
30. I am the good shepherd; and the good shepherd gives himself for his sheep; But the hireling who is not a shepherd and whose the sheep are not when he sees the wolf as it comes leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf comes and snatches away the sheep and scatters them and the hireling flees because he is an hireling and has no care for the sheep
31. The mind-executioner grabs him with one hand, rolls over and snatches up his cane with the other
32. 13:11-32 Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to them it is not given because whoever has to him it shall be given back and he shall have greater abundance; but whoever has nothing from him it shall be taken away even that which he holds; therefore I speak to them in parables because they while looking see nothing and while hearing they do not listen neither do they understand; and through them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah who says: By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand and by seeing you all shall see and shall not perceive because this people’s heart is stiffened hard and their ears are deadened in hearing and their eyes they have closed in case at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them; but blessed are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear; because truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them; therefore hear the parable of the sower: When any one hears the word of the Kingdom and does not understand it then the Wicked One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart; This is he who received the seed by the way side; but he who received the seed in stony places he is the same who hears the word and oblivious with joy receives it; still he has no root in himself but endures for a while because when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word eventually he is offended
33. There was an intellectual keenness and brightness in it, a fire of imagery and (in the best sense) wit, the like of which had not been known, or known only in snatches, in our literature since the best days of the later Elizabethans
34. She heard snatches of his conversation, which
35. A drunk snatches all the flowers and before he
36. Despite everything, we slept in snatches till first light, when it took a fair bit of stretching, bending and arm slapping to restore circulation
37. A few snatches of conversation overheard by a schoolboy spying in the cricket shed? The kids might have been making up stories to impress each other, and it only needs the suggestion that Robert was in there smoking pot and set himself on fire, to have his story thrown out and counter charges laid by the school
38. As he drifted off to sleep he hummed snatches of music
39. A faint wind wafted to her ears distant shouts and snatches of ribald song
40. The breeze that stirred the tapestries on the wall brought faint noises from the streets of Peshkhauri—occasional snatches of wailing song, or the thrum of a cithern
41. I could still hear; it almost sounded like a foreign language, snatches of conversations that sometimes made sense and others not
42. Based on some snatches of information he had stumbled into, he strongly believed he had a spy reporting to a group of pirates, and he suspected who the spy might be
43. Gladiator snatches the weapon out its hand
44. The tug snatches it and parks it
45. He knew that I would suffer all my waking hours, and all my snatches of sleep be haunted by terrible dreams o' been trapping in that fish's belly once more, though this time for eternity
46. After the plunging water turned and spat him out of the base of the waterfall into the river, he was teased and tormented with snatches of air as he was forced to the surface, and plunged under it again
47. It was only a few steps ahead of me by then and I could see little snatches of color through the leaves
48. “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches it away what was sown in his heart
49. Just as he’s about to take a bite, Miles snatches it
50. He would get snatches of his life, but they never stayed with him for long, they disappeared
1. ‘Of course it matters!’ he shouted, striding over to where I am standing and snatching the peeler and potato out of my hands
2. I crossed the road to the Flea Market in Avissinias square and wandered around, snatching occasional glimpses of the awesome floodlit Acropolis at the end of narrow interlocking streets but it was too early to visit
3. Snatching her back against himself, he whispered “Hang in there, I can't get away to take you home right now
4. They played games of snatching pieces off of him
5. She fainted away, but Aladdin, snatching the lamp, said boldly:
6. Snatching it up on the fly, he continued running, moving as fast as his legs could bear him to the sound of human voices coming from the rooftops
7. Some would swear it was travelling at two hundred knots by the time it reached Clothier’s farm, where it ripped over the paddocks and over the Dort river snatching and enveloping
8. turning benevolent at last, they’d chosen to punish her hubris by snatching away the daughter whom she would have loved so well
9. She explained about the problems with drinking, shop lifting, glue sniffing, hand-bag snatching and prostitution
10. It would seem like the Germans weren’t impressed with us snatching prisoners from their wiring party
11. His eyes flashed and one hand shot out, snatching the broom from her hands
12. After chasing her around the yard, cornering her, and snatching her up, I would try to comfort her by stroking her feathers and holding her close to me
13. Snatching the bag from Latrandura’s hands he strode over to the globe and swept it up inside the bag
14. But even as Grindel's paw touched the object, Brokin ran across the chamber, snatching it from his grasp
15. " Snatching up the car keys, I headed for the door before the list got any longer
16. In a temper, I thumped the keypad, snatching my hand away as the clear plastic cover snapped closed
17. "Give me that!" I said, snatching it from his hand, my heart sinking as I realised it was a contract
18. He sat, snatching his hand away
19. “Give me that!” he barked uncharacteristically, snatching the orders from my hand
20. Belver clamped his jaws on the great beast's neck, snatching a piece of his throat within his jaws
21. He was up again and snatching the sword from the man's hand who held it
22. Hilkea was suddenly there, snatching her little Ea away
23. I remember the factionless man with the gray teeth, snatching the bag of apples from my hands
24. After crushing these uprisings, Ashurnasirpal II dares not antagonize Babylon and turns against Bit Adini, snatching the territory east of the Euphrates
25. She narrowed her eyes at his face before quickly snatching her phone back
26. Snatching his sword from the
27. “Sure,” she replied, snatching the bill out of my hand
28. drifted almost weightlessly around the table, snatching the
29. snatching up the piece of wood and rolling back on to her feet
30. ” I muttered snatching my hand back and he chuckled “I figured
31. In a flash, Chan appears and grabs me by the waist, snatching me away from Zachary
32. “Yes, it is”, Toni says while snatching her hand away “and it’s a pity you missed his beautiful proposal
33. “All I need and want is your love but thank you very much”, she says while snatching the keys from him
34. When the terror attacks began they were snatching hundreds of victims at a time
35. An instant of plummeting down to certain injury and a likely second death, and then something soft and strong caught him, snatching him upwards in the air
36. The boy and the scribe scrabble along as best they can, sometimes snatching at the rock face to maintain balance
37. through doorways, snatching children as they went
38. us – though always impatiently, snatching whatever it was from
39. snatching a map and suggesting a few things that would improve
40. “It’s only a scratch,” snarled Ma, snatching the handkerchief from her son’s face
41. I ran and jumped with all my might, plowing into the warriors and snatching the scarf out of the air
42. King did not reply, instead he waited until the silhouette of the woman faded from view, and then he turned to the old man snatching him up by his apron strings
43. “I’ll take that!” I said snatching the letter out of his hand
44. ordered through gritted teeth, snatching her around to face him
45. opened her eyes to excruciating pain caused by him snatching and
46. snatching up unsuspecting smal er monsters and carrying them off
47. The situation was extremely delicate; the expressions of the concourse, as I have already indicated, were fierce only comparable with the canine aggressions of a bulldog to who someone were snatching its food
48. She is quick into the prize door, snatching out the toy with gusto
49. He was the wizard of soul snatching; a dark-skinned wizard with long, black leather-like hair
50. As the scarecrows went around snatching up children, Peter and his friends were right there to save them