snatch
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1. snatch - Noun
2. snatch - Verb
Meaning
To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
To seize and transport away; to rap.
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.
A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.
A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.
The handle of a scythe; a snead.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
If your wife gives you her heart, you must take it, thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.
A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.