Oh, I tried to ketch her, but she broke right through and pulled my skirts out of my hand and hit the floor.

He aims to he'p us; an' we'll ketch one o' them men out, and carry him off up here som'ers, and hold him till they pay us what we ask.

In Stow's Chronicle we find that one of these said gentlemen was set on horseback, his face towards the tail, which he held in his hand in the manner of a bridle, while with a collar significative of his offence, dangling about his neck, he made a public entrée into the city of London, conducted by Jack Ketch, who afterwards did himself the honour of scourging and branding the impostor, previous to banishment, which completed his sentence.

they are hard to ketch.

My heart is not locked up; I am no Jack Ketch, prosecuting criminals for ten dollars a head.

Seemed to be afraid somebody'd ketch 'im; I couldn't make out who.

Mebbe I'd be lucky enough to ketch Hen too, an' if so, nobody in the village'd wear mournin'!

"Cap'n Tarbell was the man I tried to do a good turn to; a man what used to be master of a ketch called the Lizzie and Annie, trading between 'ere and Shoremouth.

And then came the affair between the Elector and the ketch, with David Block's death; and after that they said it was not safe for Maskew to walk at large, and that he would be found some day dead on the down; but he gave no heed to it, and went on as if he had been a paid exciseman rather than a magistrate.

It's natchurl enugh, I guess, When some gits more and some gits less, Fer them-uns on the slimmest side To claim it ain't a fare divide; And I've knowed some to lay and wait, And git up soon, and set up late, To ketch some feller they could hate For goin' at a faster gait.

" "You might ketch your death o' cold, though," ses George.

By'm by, when we git keerless, they'll ketch us nappin', and then, God help us, that's all.

Thurtell is by this time a good way on his journey, baiting at Scorpion perhaps, Ketch is bargaining for his cast coat and waistcoat, the Jew demurs at first at three half crowns, but on consideration that he, may get somewhat by showing 'em in the Town, finally closes.

I knowed I should ketch yer some day.

Dey say de w'ite folks is gwine ter bu'n all de cullud schools an' chu'ches, an' kill all de niggers dey kin ketch.

In November, 1712, he captured the Governor of Bombay's armed yacht, together with the Anne ketch from Carwar.

"He can ketch more fish than any other two men in the placeallers seemed to kind o' hev a knack o' whistlin' 'em right into the boat.

Sorry Sid's ketch dog.

While lying in Little Killery Bay, on the coast of Connemara, in her Majesty's surveying ketch Sylvia, we were attracted by a large fin above the surface, moving with an oscillatory motion, somewhat resembling the action of a man sculling at the stern of a boat; and knowing it to be an unusual visitor, we immediately got up the harpoon and went in chase.

Punish, if you choose, the imperial judge, but do not make Berlin the dishonored Jack Ketch to carry out your sentence.

You better not let Boss ketch you off'n de place, less'n he give you a pass to go.

He better not ketch you with a book in yo' han'.

Another marster gwina whup you in de groun' if he ketch you runnin' 'way lak dis.

An' don't le' 's mutter 'bout the awfle bricks We'll give 'em, ef we ketch 'em in a fix: That 'ere's most frequently the kin' o' talk Of critters can't be kicked to toe the chalk; Your "You'll see nex' time!"

But the small string of tiny fish wuz all he ketched out of the deep waters, he didn't ketch any cheerfulness or happiness for himself or me, only disappintment and shagrin for I felt if I didn't use all my tack mebby the meetin' house would try to set down on him.