Which preposition to use with catching
How often, when warmed with love and wine, did we tell tales, in the presence of our dearest friends, of Fiammetta and Panfilo, feigning that they were Greeks of the days of old, I at one time, he at another; and the tales were all of ourselves; how we were first caught in the snares of Love, and of what tribulations we were long the victims, giving suitable names to the places and persons connected with the story!
I reached the table, and stooped down to him, with a catching at my heart.
It reminded me, somewhat, of the first glimpse I had caught of the mountain-amphitheatre.
"I don't know how it is," he began, as he seated himself on the log in front of the tents, with one leg hanging down, and the other drawn up with the heel of his boot caught on a projection in the bark, his knee almost even with his nose, and his fingers locked across his shin, "I don't know exactly why, but the catching of that trout makes me think of an adventer I had on this very lake, five year ago this summer.
The horses had to be caught with a lasso, with which he was very expert.
In this piece his love of nautical adventure reappears, and his idealization of primitive life, caught from Rousseau and Chateaubriand.
Murray batted safely in the sixth, with one out, but died trying to steal second, Carrigan catching for Boston.
"When I first saw him, I was standin' with the butt of my rifle on the log, my hand graspin' the barrel, and as I caught it up suddenly to load, the string of my powder-horn caught between the muzzle and the ramrod, broke, and the horn fell to the ground.
"I don't know how it is," he began, as he seated himself on the log in front of the tents, with one leg hanging down, and the other drawn up with the heel of his boot caught on a projection in the bark, his knee almost even with his nose, and his fingers locked across his shin, "I don't know exactly why, but the catching of that trout makes me think of an adventer I had on this very lake, five year ago this summer.
We found, however, upon examination, that the deer had walked up on the dam, probably to take a look at what was below, and on the other side, when his foot slipped down between the poles, and he was caught as in a trap.
The flames crackled; the wood caught like tinder; the flickering light retrieved much of the cavern about them from the utter dark.
But besides thus willing, by an inner necessity, its own annihilation, Life, in the very structure and machinery of its being, seems caught into the entanglements of an inescapable net, an eternity-long bondage it can never rip, to flee and remake itself into the immortal image that is its God.
"Some we caught to-day over in Green Pond.
Meyers caught by far the larger number of games, and, basing the work of catcher upon the average chances per game, seems to lead his Pittsburgh rival.
Could it be possible that the unfortunate one had been caught under one of these falling forest monarchs, and pinned to the ground?
One wheel caught against a tree, and before the horses could get it free or break from the harness, I had sprung to their heads.
If a slave is ever caught without a pass, he is immediately conveyed to the House of Correction, where his head is shaved, and he himself obliged to remain until his master buys his freedom for four or five milreis. (8s.
Driven by the beaters, forth they spring, Soon caught within the hunters' ring.
The colds which resulted were always supposed to be caught out of doors.
It was at this period that he repeatedly exclaimed, while he bit his own shoulder, "The first white man I catch after this I will eat him." {176b} 'Meanwhile about sixteen of the mutineers, led by the daring Ogston, took the road to Arima; in order, as they said, to commence their march to Guinea: but fortunately the militia of that village, composed principally of Spaniards, Indians, and Sambos, assembled.
How plainly one catches through the words of the last speaker an eager prescience of events to come!the sweep of General Gough on Warlencourt and Bapaumethe French reoccupation of Péronne.
Hence when bands were caught off the reservations they were destroyed like dangerous, noxious beasts.
The visitor rings at the gate, and is admitted by a lay-brother dressed in the beautiful white habit, caught about the waist by a leathern girdle from which a rosary hangs.
but if any resident of Bumsteadville should happen to be caught near the country editor's last home after dark, he would get over that part of his road in a curiously agile and flighty manner;(just the same as a Positive philosopher with a sore throat, or at an uncommonly showy bit of lightning, would repeat "Now I lay me down to sleep," with surprising devotion.)
The Haggage is a disease, Billy, that all rich women are exposed to'more easily caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad.'