Catches

Examples

• Suppose that some one rolls a ball to a child; he catches it and rolls it back, and the game goes on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He examined the catches and fastenings of the windows, and then swore he didn't care for the devil and all his angels, and went to sleep. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Damp, but not wet linen, may possibly give colds; but no one catches cold by bathing, and no clothes can be wetter than water itself. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Handle your tools without mittens; remember that _The cat in gloves catches no mice_, as Poor Richard says. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The drowning man catches at the straw. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Her bright quick eye catches the truth directly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I'll give five dollars to any nigger as catches 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Hanging on the tail of a kite it photographs the face of mother earth, and, acting quicker than the lightning, it catches and defines the path of that erratic flash. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I have one here without the fangs, and Teddy catches it every night to please the folk in the canteen. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He catches rabbits, Anselmo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But all was profoundly hushed in the noonday stillness of a house, where an invalid catches the unrefreshing sleep that is denied to the night-hours. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• So if he catches rabbits he says it is foxes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But their garments were mere wraps; there are no clasps or catches to be found. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Wilson also invented the rotating hook which catches the loop of the upper thread, and drops a disk bobbin through it to form the stitch. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If he catches no signals in his telephone receiver he understands that no messages are being sent within his area. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It's my innings now, gov'nor, and as soon as I catches hold o' this 'ere Trotter, I'll have a good 'un. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It glides over the park after the moving shadows of the clouds, and chases them, and never catches them, all day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She drops her art if anything else catches her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If he catches a fox he would say it was an elephant. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If he catches one of my gals in the same fix, he's welcome to pay back. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He may then note how the other person catches and holds the ball in order to improve his own acts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The natural oil of the skin catches and retains dust and dirt, and makes a greasy film over the body. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And Rosamond could say the right thing; for she was clever with that sort of cleverness which catches every tone except the humorous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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