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"You should have been the first to offer your hand, since you were in the wrong." Then he added, "You should not raise your ruler at a comrade who is better than you are at the son of a soldier!" and snatching the ruler from my hand, he broke it in two, and hurled it against the wall. Friday, 24th.
Madame Cesar embraced him; Birotteau rose up like the righteous at the sound of the last trumpet, and issued, as it were, from the tomb. Then he stretched out a frenzied hand to seize the fifty stamped papers. "Stop!" said the terrible uncle, Pillerault, snatching the papers from Popinot, "one moment!"
"Yes, dearest, you are always a good and industrious boy," said the mother, snatching a moment from her work to imprint a kiss upon his forehead. "Poor pa' will have a nice fire to warm him when he comes home," said the elder boy. At this allusion to the child's father, the mother burst into tears. The countenances of both the children fell.
Prideaux's voice and action appeared for a moment to create a calm, and, snatching the opportunity, he, with the assistance of a person in the crowd, held back his dog, as the carcass of the butcher's dog was dragged away by the lately insolent owner.... The dog was dead!
To a man knowing the broken range country a whit less intimately than Shandon knew it, the trip that night down to the bridge, across it, across the Leland ranch and to the cliffs where the cave was would have been a sheer impossibility. The storm, howling and snatching at him, would have taken the heart out of a man less grimly determined than he had grown to be.
"All right; here goes. Marietty Bacon, ain't you an' Lime Gilman goin' t' be married?" "No, sir, we ain't," laughed the girl, snatching up the plate and darting away to the house, where she struck up "Weevily Wheat," and went busily on about her cooking. Lime threw a kiss, at her, and fell to work on his log with startling energy.
The lunch was slight, but its ordering took time and consideration, as it ought, for nothing is so destructive of health and mental tone as the snatching of a mid-day meal at a lunch counter from a bill of fare prepared by God knows whom. Mr.
M. Ferraud did not smoke, but he dissipated to the extent of drinking three small cups of coffee after dinner. "You are right," he acknowledged there had been a slight dispute relative to the methods of roasting the berry "Europe does not roast its coffee, it burns it. The aroma, the bouquet! I am beaten." "So am I," Fitzgerald reflected sadly, snatching a vision of the girl's animated face.
"Liquid streams celestial nectar, Darted through the ambient sky, " Said the captain; "liquid, ay, liquid is the word." He was about to test the liquid again: "Stop! stop! fair play, captain; it's my turn now," cried the lieutenant, snatching the flask from his friend's grasp, and applying it to his own lips.
'Yah! said Montague, giving him a pleasant thrust in the breast; 'you're too deep for us, you dog, or I wouldn't have told you. Dine with me to-morrow, in Pall Mall! 'I will' said Jonas. 'Done! cried Montague. 'Wait a bit. Take these papers with you and look 'em over. See, he said, snatching some printed forms from the table.
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