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1  She snatched up his hand, she kissed it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  She squeezed his hand quickly, then snatched hers away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  While others drifted to her group, Carol snatched up the conversation.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  He thrust out his long arm and snatched his wrinkly vest from a chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  She snatched her hand away, stripped off her glove, tucked her hand back into his.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Even to a returned mother, his whining and his trick of seven times snatching her silver brush were fatiguing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  She was shy of the big-sister manner; Vida would either laugh at her or snatch the idea and change it to suit herself.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  If Kennicott were snatched from Gopher Prairie and instantly conveyed to a town leagues away, he would not realize it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  She discovered that most of the women in the government bureaus lived unhealthfully, dining on snatches in their crammed apartments.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  He was sitting on a rock doing nothing, but when he heard the Gougerling car coming he snatched a book out of his pocket, and as they went by he pretended to be reading it, to show off.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII