Intently, I gazed around; but could catch no sight of her.

As I went, I asked myself whether the thing I had just seen was likely to be the same of which I had caught a glimpse in the morning.

Its mountains, lakes, seas, continents, and islands, were faintly, though not indistinctly, traced; and every moment brought forth something new to catch my eye, and awaken my curiosity.

I'd got a little used to it by this time, and though it was mighty hard work to catch my breath in such a wind as we made by our flight, yet I managed to sit up and look around me.

I realized, then, that I had, in my agitation, unconsciously caught hold of the hot lamp-glass, and burnt my hand, badly.

Henshaw caught up the word quickly.

The word "handcuff" is a popular corruption of the Anglo-Saxon "handcop," i.e., that which "cops" or "catches" the hands.

I had gone, perhaps, a hundred yards, when, suddenly, it seemed to me that I caught a faint sound, somewhere along the passage behind.

He caught one fine fish at the first throw, and took it for granted that he was going to have a good time of it among the trout.

Smith's carts were in attendance at all the great newspaper offices, ready to carry off printed sheets to the Strand house for sorting and packing; and thence they sped swiftly through the streets in the early morning to catch the first trains for the country.

The thin bark is streaked and sprinkled with resin, as though it had been showered down upon it like rain, so that even the green trees catch fire readily, and during strong winds whole forests are destroyed, the flames leaping from tree to tree, forming one continuous belt of roaring fire that goes surging and racing onward above the bending woods, like the grass-fires of a prairie.

Gifford caught his arm and scrutinized the stain.

He always declared he caught many a cold in the ascetic Cardinal's "cold house."

Then, as I stared anxiously up the pathway, my candle caught a gleam, far up the passage.

Then a soft, rhythmic sound like a giant breathing in his sleep caught the old hunter's keen ear.

He was about to speak of something else, but, lifting his eyes, he caught Mac's sudden glance of grudging attention.

And his first words caught my attention with an unpleasant grip.

But not before he had caught in her eyes a look which he hated to see, a look which seemed to confirm a suspicion already in his mind.

We catch their restful spirit, yield to the soothing influences of the sunshine, and saunter dreamily on through flowers and bees, scarce touched by a definite thought; then suddenly we find ourselves in the shadowy cañon, closeted with Nature in one of her wildest strongholds.

He used to use it when a boy in catching birds by putting the briny compound on the tails of the same, and that he used to call "fun alive;" but he don't see itthe saltabout PUNCHINELLO.

"Where's them nephews?where's MONTGOMERIES?where's that umbrella?" howls Mr. BUMSTEAD, catching the first man he sees by the throat, and driving his hat over his eyes.

Father employed him in cutting house logs and building houses, but this work not being adapted to his tastes, he soon gave it up, and obtained government employment in catching United States horses.

But it was only now and then that I had been able to catch a transient and distant view of these females, during the first week after my arrival; and the little I saw, served but to increase my curiosity.

A string of sonnets or a novel or two, if it catches the fancy, has wiped out a tap-room record.

The German officer overheard this remark, although he perhaps did not catch the exact meaning.