And the little garret room used by Winthrop and Will when the latter was at home, and now by Winthrop alone, was too freezing cold when he went up to bed to allow him more than a snatch at his longed-for work.
Fresh from the plough, he could now and then snatch a half hour of study to some purpose; there was no "fresh from the school.
How was it possible for the "Flying Swallow" to snatch the Emperor's love?
Listlessly he watched one trooper snatch a coat from another, drag it on triumphantly over a shirt which was a fringe of tatters.
The other three bedded down, anxious to snatch as much rest as possible.
Drew caught a snatch of sentence passed between the leader of the newcomers and his own officer.
At last she snatched it, much as she would have liked to snatch a handful of his hair.
Is it not absurd of Jasper to snatch at such an excuse for breaking off the match?
If it had occurred to Bibi-Lupin to snatch off the wig to establish the identity of the Spaniard with Jacques Collin, he would never have thought twice about the paper, it looked so exactly like part of the wigmaker's work.
That night Grôm was too wary to sleep, suspecting that his enemy might return and try to snatch the girl from him under the cover of the dark.
The child, displeased at this new, useless thing, and wanting his whip back, tried to snatch the bow from his mother's hands.
With a lightning swoop of its gigantic head it seized the nearest warrior in its jaws and swung him, screaming, high into the air, as a heron might snatch up a sprawling frog.
Foster-mother was beside him in a second, eager to snatch him up and cover him with kisses; but Baby Akbar wriggled himself from her hold.
There was nothing for it but to let go, snatch at the branches as he fell and trust to chance for safety.
Come on, come on, brethren, down into the glen, to avenge our comrades, and snatch the booty from the teeth of these pigs.
While thissnatch of conversation was going on, Noxon, who had cut off the power, was edging nearer.
In the deep silence they heard the snatch of conversation and hurriedly began putting on their clothes.
Never did a lioness snatch her cub from the hands of the hunters, and carry it to her den, with a more savage love than I dragged you from the habitations of men to hide you in the desert.
In old days they would have tried to come near him and touch him to snatch some virtue from the contact.
As I resumed my seat, I said, "You have only one life to live; snatch at least what you can out of the years.
Sometimes in one's life comes a crisis, when one must snatch at some remedy, or else die, or go mad.
The same fear of punishment with which they approach the gin-house, possesses them again on lying down to get a snatch of rest.
I had no regular periods of rest, and could never snatch but a few moments of sleep at a time.
Perhaps he was becoming accustomed to having strange ladies snatch him to their breasts.
It had been a busy, happy, work-filled week, in which I had had to snatch odd moments for the selecting of certain wonderful toys for the Spalpeens.
I longed tosnatch it back; to tidy it here, to take it in there, to smooth certain rough places neglected in my haste.
As the ancient crone continues to float, a loud murmuring arises in the crowd, and with quaking limbs and eyes full of terror wesnatch up our children and make a dash for freedom.
He says that he endeavoured to snatch Terah's idols from the flames, into which they had been thrown by Abram, and was burnt to death in consequence.
