Word: snatch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion by the gay brook for which the child...
...lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations. The surface of the lake was grey, desolate, broken. It was still raining...
THOSE who read and liked "South Wind" have had to wait ten years for Norman Douglas' next book "In the Beginning." At last it is here, and although everybody is rushing around to snatch up the first editions, it is, frankly not worth waiting...
...Snatch his britches up round his throat...
Normally dogs snatch at food; elephants reach out their trunks for it. A man will pull his hand away from a hot plate. These are examples of unconditioned reflexes, fully developed in infancy. They constitute the equipment with which the animal faces life, according to the behaviorists.* By modifying the conditions, the simple reflexes may be changed, becoming more complicated, or conditioned. The process of changing an unconditioned reflex into a conditioned reflex was clearly demonstrated to an audience of psychiatrists at the Academy of Medicine last week, in a cinema entitled "The Mechanics of the Brain...