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Definition of Grabbed
1. grab [v] - See also: grab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grabbed
Literary usage of Grabbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"They started to get • grabbed THE LITTLE CHILD.' out a boat to take him ashore
and lynch him, but he grabbed the little child all of a sudden and jumped ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"A. He grabbed me around the waist, with his left hand. ... A. I fell to the ground
when be grabbed me, and I screamed as I was coming up, and he ran down ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1919)
"But Jim's mother grabbed at her arm and betrayed herself in that moment. " '
Oh, stop ! ' she cried, choking. She coul 1 not bear it. ..."
4. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... Pomp he mated up behind, And, creepin' gradually close to, as sly as any mink,
Jest grabbed my leg, and then pulled foot quicker than you could wink. ..."
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