“[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.”
Monica Baldwin
“They're like a wisp of smoke. They materialize and leave without notice.”
Mike Morton
“I thought we had it. We were so close, and then they just snatched it out of our hands.”
Christian Maraker
“The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”
William Shakespeare
“Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“all I could think about was snatching her wig off!”
Karrine Steffans
