A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: snatched

Number of occurrences in corpus: 26

AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 13 21 / and so those chosen for God snatched a lofty victory, / and the dar
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 178 e just. / After these words, he snatched up a spear with a threatening
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 305 his brother’s blood came, / snatched that right hand and carried i
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 346 hat a voracious fire suddenly snatched at / the high roof with flick
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 494 k. / He soon recovered, and was snatched by it from death. / So from the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 959 sing of the sun, / and led me, snatched from night, into the bright a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1134 t back outside. / From then on, snatched from great dangers, the virgi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1341 hments. / But that pious father snatched it to his bosom / with a gentl
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1620 his spirit was then suddenly / snatched away, and his empty body rema
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 14 7 he man, / but the gentle priest snatched him from death. / He was seized
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 21 7 nd through it final death had snatched many from this life; / some lay
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 6 visible deeds.. / Many times it snatched clothes and food from hands / a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 10 rning fire, / but it was barely snatched from death by family hands. / N
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 11 rowing he leads bands of men / snatched from the whirlpool of the wor
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 10 visions of heavenly things; / snatched up, he ascended to the third
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 97 sive wall. / So let us who were snatched from danger / give sweet thank
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 274 ce the divine power of heaven snatched up / lest he suffer the ghastly
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 490 rns the hearts of the guilty, / snatched an outstanding lamb from the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1362 which the citizens could see snatched from his shoulders on the thr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1811 ’s evil, since she had been snatched from him, / the virgin whom the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2128 ed that her chastity had been snatched / when her husband came to the
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 21 e the happiness that had been snatched away. / Cuthbert soothes the
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 294 l fire with crackling flames / snatched off a dry roof of thatch, / he
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 407 o be moved by this? / The see, snatched from him at such a critical m
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1017 red to the see which had been snatched from him, / in order that Aldf
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1199 condemn Wilfrid, / who, like a snatched firebrand, remains unburned b