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They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNATCH
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snatch
 v.  grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly
Classic Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  Well, she'd have to bear it meekly, much as she disliked it, if she expected to snatch victory from this debacle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  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
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
4  I have had her rush at me with a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her apprehension.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his infernal grasp his trembling prey.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  Like a strange snatch of heavenly music, heard in the lull of a tempest, this burst of feeling made a moment's blank pause.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  'THAT you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
9  He would snatch a hurried breakfast and go and find Huck.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  Then we can snatch him out and rush him away the first time there's an alarm.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
11  Once thus ensnared, unless the protecting hand of God snatch him thence, all is over, and his struggles but tend to hasten his destruction.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
12  The steps were crowded with masks, who strove to snatch each other's torches.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
13  It is generally the case that what we most ardently desire is as ardently withheld from us by those who wish to obtain it, or from whom we attempt to snatch it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
14  They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
15  The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying to snatch it from one another.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  She managed to snatch the gun from his hand.
2  Perhaps you'll be able to snatch a couple of hours' sleep before dinner.
3  A lot of the more mature people come down and snatch up the jobs; students have less chances in summer markets.
4  Why, you have saved my life! - snatched me from a horrible and excruciating death!
5  The hawk snatched the chicken and flew away.
6  You have saved my life! - snatched me from a horrible death!
7  The switch hovered in the air -- the peril was desperate -- "My! Look behind you, aunt!" The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger.
8  But my amazement reached its climax when Miss Temple asked Helen if she sometimes snatched a moment to recall the Latin her father had taught her.
9  To which Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather, and as soon as his back was turned the new boy snatched up a stone, threw it and hit him between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like an antelope.
10  He snatched the photos out of my hand before I had a chance to look at them.
11  He snatched up his gun and fired.
12  Mick snatched the cards from Archie's hand.
13  When rolling down the hill, he snatched at a rock.
14  Although we find occasional snatches of genuine poetry in her work, most of her writing is mere doggerel.
15  We caught snatches of conversation from the room next door.