2. Verb. (third-person singular of ''snatch'') ¹
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Definition of Snatches
1. snatch [v] - See also: snatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snatches
Literary usage of Snatches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"Humorous-Satirical snatches. In the snatch of one-stress and two-stress iambic
verse, II, v, 89-92, Shakespeare not improbably travesties certain fads and ..."
2. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"O thou that art about to return to thy parent, his grief and ample glory both !
This day first gave thee to the war, the same snatches thee away ; yet after ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The author finds a place, too, for descriptions of nature, for touches showing
the tenderness of the true soldier, for snatches of grim humour or sharp ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... one who snatches your brief when you present it for payment, or punches you
in the jaw and tells you to shunt.—Sporting Times. ..."
5. The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1910)
"snatches OF MIRTH IN A DARK LIFE. DIDST thou ne'er see the swallow's veering
breast, Winging the air beneath some murky cloud In the sunned glimpses of a ..."
6. Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard (1901)
"SEBASTIAN Wc have sarcasm and cynicism, and we possess much BACH that is clever,
all produced by snatches of success, well mixed with disappointment and the ..."
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