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He was giving her her chance. She had but to snatch up the few things she meant to take with her, to go out, to find her way down the cliffs She shuddered. She was afraid! Did he know that, too? Had he thought of that? She moved back and forth restlessly; at one instant she was sure that she would go, only to be certain of nothing before another second passed. How soon would he return?
But I should have remembered he was a presbyterian I ought to have been aware that I was nursing a wolf-cub, whose diabolical nature would make him tear and snatch at me on the first opportunity. Were Saint Paul on earth again, and a presbyterian, he would be a rebel in three months it is in the very blood of them."
Fan, did you ever read Fishberg's book?" "No," said Fanny, low-voiced. "Sometime, when you can snatch a moment from the fascinations of the mail order catalogue, read it. Fishberg says I wish I could remember his exact words `It isn't the body that marks the Jew. It's his Soul. The type is not anthropological, or physical; it's social or psychic.
But, indeed, the British showed little ability, throughout the subsequent course of the war, to snatch from the Americans the fruits of the victory at Put-in-Bay.
Robert seemed to assume that his "cousin" was merely waiting to be asked, while Hilton's attitude was that of a man biding his time to snatch a prize when opportunity served. Sylvia herself hated the very thought of matrimony.
Helen is naturally very reserved, but by degrees she has come talk with me quite frankly. To-day as we sat together in the nursery, little Raymond snatched a toy from Una, who, as usual, yielded to him without a frown. I called him to me; he came reluctantly. "Raymond, dear," I said, "did you ever see papa snatch anything from me?" He smiled, and shook his head.
No bare feet, no bare heads, no rags, no dirt, no disorder. A Papist sprang from his lair in a side street and tried to snatch the scarf from a young man, who promptly drove him back to his den. Nothing else happened. At midnight there were for the whole city twenty police cases against thirty-nine for last year's twelfth. So much for Orange rowdies in the streets.
When she reappears at the Pensionnat it is with "flame in her soul and lightning in her eyes". She reminds M. Paul "of a young she wild creature, new caught, untamed, viewing with a mixture of fire and fear the first entrance of the breaker-in". "'You look, said he, 'like one who would snatch at a draught of sweet poison, and spurn wholesome bitters with disgust."
Brower heard her intonation, and wondered over its meaning; but he would have found no meaning in the words themselves, even if they had been distinctly audible, for he knew no French. Jane crooned the same brief snatch of melody many a time as the preparations for her sister's wedding moved along particularly during those hours when she sat in her own room and directed the invitations.
While, on the one hand, there is a wild tendency to snatch at originality at any cost to coin new phrases new probabilities to "intensify" our language with strange "impulsive" energy to break loose, in short, from all those restraints which have been thought to render style both perspicuous and agreeable; there is, on the other hand produced partly by a very intelligible reaction an effort somewhat too apparent to be classical and correct.
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