"Snatcher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... assumptions. I don't care where or how far he goes, so long as he starts with something that present-day science does not deny. Here is where "The Soul Master" fell down, and, even more so, "The Soul Snatcher." Better leave souls and astrals and egos alone, except in very, very rare cases, when an author turns up who can make you believe in ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... genuine disgust. He had all the contempt for a petty-larceny thief that the skilled safe-breaker has for the common purse-snatcher. The line between pilfering and legitimate stealing was very clear in ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... God,' said the cornet's wife.' "Snatcher" is certainly the only word for him.' Lukashka was surnamed 'the Snatcher' because of his bravery in snatching a boy from a watery grave, and the cornet's wife alluded to this, wishing in her turn to say something agreeable ...
— The Cossacks • Leo Tolstoy
... trumpets of old tombs, the paths worn by the feet of worshippers and mourners, and the offerings and the inscriptions of bereaved affection. To rustic neighbourhoods, where love is more than commonly tenacious, and where some bonds of blood or fellowship unite the entire society of a parish, the body-snatcher, far from being repelled by natural respect, was attracted by the ease and safety of the task. To bodies that had been laid in earth, in joyful expectation of a far different awakening, there came that hasty, lamp-lit, terror-haunted resurrection of the spade ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... snatcher," retorted the March Hare. "One who snatches everything he can lay his hands on, without regard to whether it's his by divine right or not. I guess they can use it in poems calling attention to ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs
... Lucretia had her little handbag snatched out of her hand, right on Broadway street in New York city. She did so; and all she could remember about the snatcher was that he was a handsome young man with an eyeglass in one eye. A regular dandy he was, if the thief was the fellow who brushed against her so rudely. Anyhow, after he'd brushed, her bag was gone and all her shopping money in it. Papa told her it served her right. That to carry a ...
— Dorothy's Travels • Evelyn Raymond
... little bit of a dead body-snatcher," said one of the guardians. "He has been up to the resurrection rig.{1} Here," continued ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... of course I will! If I don't love you for your own sake, I'm the wretchedest turnip-snatcher in London. ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... tyrant! Thrash him! Hang him! Tar and feather the viper's fry! the wizard! the body-snatcher!" bellowed the mob, one member of which was raving with delirium tremens, and another was a ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... a gunman, that woman is a bad woman, the boy is Billy the Bread-Snatcher," she answered precisely, drawing out a card on which to record something, "and you, ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... who seemed to weigh all emotions by the scale of a body snatcher, appeared to be delighted at the prospect of enjoying a little excitement, and began to examine the priming of his long gun with a degree of attention that showed how much reliance he intended placing upon it in ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... me, are you, you vile body-snatcher, you loathsome well-whipped scum! As if we didn't know who your father was, how your mother was a harlot! You strangled your own brother, you live in fornication, you debauch the young, you unabashed lecher! Don't be in such a hurry; here ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... Wombats sneakin' our Puddin' while we're helpin' to put out fires, not to speak of all the worry and bother of tryin' to get information out of parrots an' bandicoots an' hedgehogs, why, it's enough to make a man suspect his own grandfather of bein' a puddin'-snatcher." ...
— The Magic Pudding • Norman Lindsay
... a million, as I remember, so I can't praise his generosity. But the widow, your unknown auntie, the body-snatcher who annexed the ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson
... hole and hold your tongue, you body-snatcher!" cried Madam Johnsen, spitting with rage. "You've got to stick ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... rubbing his hands together, 'you've got to start easy, you know. You want to start easy, so's to make the climax worth something. Now, let's see! Well, suppose you walk up to him and say, "You spawn of the pike-eyed sneak that Herod hired to kill babies, you low-down, contemptible son of a body-snatcher, you was born a murderer, but lacked the courage and became a horse-thief!" There, Sol, start in easy like that and gradually work up to a climax, and you'll have him going—and all inside the ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day |
