"Snatch up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jove! my newspaper leader; many important papers! However could I be so careless?" I snatch up my manuscript, convince myself that it is lying in order and go, without stopping a second or looking about me, ...
— Hunger • Knut Hamsun
... and vexations, in the loss of horse-shoes and wheel-pins, and in a great gap in the road, over which we had to lead the horses, and haul the carriage separately. At this place we supplicated our agitator for leave to eat a little breakfast; but he would not stop an instant, and we were obliged to snatch up a roll or two apiece and gnaw the dry crusts during our passage to keep soul and body together. We got in soon after one, and I have spent my time in eating, drinking, sleeping, and other recreations, down ...
— A Hundred Years by Post - A Jubilee Retrospect • J. Wilson Hyde
... of the discussion they arrived at the company grounds, and had scarcely time to snatch up their guns and don their belts before the company moved out to take its place in the ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy
... reach the ground. His first act was to snatch up his camera and look it over, sighing with satisfaction when he found it ...
— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen
... as he was, he took with him a brass pestle. 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. He had realized for a month past that any object of the kind would serve as a weapon, so he instantly, without hesitation, recognized that it would serve ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... To snatch up their arms and run to a place of safety was the work of a moment. It must not be supposed that such experienced men as Redhand and Bounce were altogether unprepared for a surprise of this sort. On the day of their ...
— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne
... however. These few instants of time had been enough for the bather to jump up, snatch up the remainder of his clothes and set off through the woods with ...
— The High School Boys in Summer Camp • H. Irving Hancock
... to follow her! My husband was absent from the house, when one evening I received notice that some officers of justice, as they were called, were approaching, in search of Protestants. I had just time to snatch up my little Elise, and to hurry off to the woods, where, in a hut which had been prepared by a faithful attendant, and known only to him, we were able to conceal ourselves. My dear husband, not aware ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... and a leap, and fell upon the man who had hooked the fish. He grabbed the man and leaped back with him into the bush, before the other man could snatch up his gun and take ...
— The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two • Prince Sarath Ghosh |
