Catchers
[kætʃəz]
Examples
- Northern marshals became slave-catchers, and Northern courts had to contribute to the support and protection of the institution. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Well, it is a very ancient remedy--the old remedy of the viper-catchers, I believe, replied the doctor. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Through an introduction from Mr. Jay Gould, who then controlled the Union Pacific, Edison was allowed to ride on the cow-catchers of the locomotives. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Are you the man that will shelter a poor woman and child from slave-catchers? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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