71 adjectives to describe catching

"And yet, do you remember, Rudolph," said she, "that evening at Assequin, when I wore a blue gown, and they were playing Fleurs d'Amour, andyou said?" "Yes"there was an effective little catch in his voice"you were a wonderful girl, Clarice'my sunshine girl,' I used to call you.

"Twenty up!" had just been called from the pavilion when a sharp catch in the slips disposed of Parkes.

And here is a country bearing a well-known name, wherein no chill mists press upon our spirits, and no rain falls but what rolls off our backs like April showers off the backs of sleek drakes; where flowers bloom forever and birds are always singing; where every fellow hath a merry catch as he travels the roads, and ale and beer and wine (such as muddle no wits) flow like water in a brook.

"Look there," he said, with a queer catch in his voice, and pointed with a trembling hand to a dark object on the floor.

It appears also from the Homilies of St. Chrysostom, St. Basil, St. Austin, and others, that the Christians of their days drew several kinds of presages from persons sneezing at critical times; from meeting a cat, a dog, or an ill-looking (squinting) woman, a maiden, one blind of an eye, or a cripple; on being caught by the cloak on stepping out of a door, or from a sudden catch in one's joint or limb.

The eccentric catches of the kind usually employed in marine engines, sometimes break off at the first bolt hole, and it is preferable to have a bolt in advance of the catch face, or to have a hoop encircling the shaft with the catches welded on it, the hoop itself being fixed by bolts or a key.

"Divil a sick, gintlemen," is the answer, with a slight catch of the voice,"bless the two of yez!" EDWIN DROOD can scarcely avoid a start, as he thinks to himself, "Good Heaven!

As I very deliberately turned the hidden catches and prepared to take out the panel, I considered whether it was not time to set the apparatus going.

Tony's voice had a tiny catch in it.

The total catch of white-fish, trout,

He held her tight, so tight he could feel the quiver of her body against his, the involuntary catch of her breath.

The fish made some splendid "fly-catches;" and Mr. P., slipping on a wet stone at the edge of the brook, got in once on his base.

She added, after an instant's pause, speaking quickly, with heightened colour, and a little nervous catch in her voice, "I'll do my best.

When the nets are hauled in, the fisherman beholds a mighty catch, a sight to repay him for all his trouble.

"I think Merriwell saved his neck by a dead lucky catch," was the answer.

* * To see a greyhound catch a hare, is no news; But to see a lamb hunting a bear, is strange indeed!

With a splendid one-handed catch Thurston had brought the well-fought contest to a close, and secured a victory for Ronleigh College.

A hysterical catch of breath from Miss Vera de Long broke the ear-splitting silence.

And the shrill, fierce Highland cry, "Gralloch him!" echoed the infamous catch, till the night air rang faintly in the starlight.

A novel writer, of any talents, will draw his portraits from the lifewill catch at every striking feature, and generally paint man as he is; and there is this difference between actual histories and works of imagination, that the former are for the most part true in letter, but false in spirit; and

Our Bottle-Conversation is so infected with them, that a Party-Lie is grown as fashionable an Entertainment, as a lively Catch or a merry Story: The Truth of it is, half the great Talkers in the Nation would be struck dumb, were this Fountain of Discourse dried up.

Of ludeful matron watchful catch the beck, Or gorgeous countess full of pride and pelf.

They detest cards and dice, they shun the sports of the field, and take no delight in the ludicrous catching of birds (hawking), which men are wont to indulge in.

On top of his simple muff Snodgrass made a magnificent catch of Hooper's fly, which seemed to be good for three bases.

Who knowest but that thou mayest catch Robin Hood yet, if thou drinkest less good sack and Malmsey, and bringest down the fat about thy paunch and the dust from out thy brain.

71 adjectives to describe  catching