The nearer I got to the house the more agitated I grew; and on catching sight of it I trembled in every limb.
"Joseph is here," I answered, catching opportunely the roll of his cartwheels up the road; "and Heathcliff will come in with him.
" Cathy, catching a glimpse of her friend in his concealment, flew to embrace him; she bestowed seven or eight kisses on his cheek within the second, and then stopped, and drawing back, burst into a laugh, exclaiming, "Why, how very black and cross you look!
if we only had a proper boat and a good harpoon, I would say 'After the beast,' for he would be well worth the trouble of catching!
This catching fire in its turn, would break, and the mass of iron would fall on the nitro-glycerine.
"Come along, then, and make sure of the girls," said Merry, catching up her roll of work, for the harvesting was done.
" cried Jack, catching up two big books and whirling them round like clubs, as if to get his muscles in order at once.
" cried the delighted gentleman, catching his son in an embrace so close that the fat legs kicked convulsively, and the little coat-tails waved in the breeze, while cane and hatchet fell with a dramatic bang.
" cried Gus, as Joe, only catching the words "Open that!
Bemis hurried away, with a vague impression that Boo had swallowed a dozen brass buttons, and Miss Bat had been coasting somewhere in a bath-pan; but catching Jackson was important, so he did not stop to investigate.
At this high-handed proceeding, and the threat which accompanied it, Jack's patience gave out, and catching up Caesar, as he thought, sent him flying after the retreating tyrant with the defiant declaration,— "Keep them, then, and your old book, too!
" The little drum came flying in, and, catching it, Jill, with some hesitation, obeyed Frank's order.
"There's an arm for you; now hook away, and let's see how it works," he said, handing over the instrument to Jack, who proceeded to show its unexpected capabilities by hooking the cloth off the table in attempting to get his handkerchief, catching Frank by the hair when fishing for a book, and breaking a pane of glass in trying to draw down the curtain.
"It looks like a boy's room," he said at last, catching his breath a little.
" Then the strong horse chestnut tree and the pony trees reached down with their powerful branches and, catching hold of the bear, they tossed him up in the air, far away over in the woods, at the same time pelting him with green, prickly horse chestnuts, and the bear came down ker-bunko in a bramble brier bush.
I first thought of this way of catching him!
But Tancred, the bay horse, began to make such spirited remonstrances against this frequent change of direction, that Stephen, catching sight of Willy Moss peeping through the gate, called out, "Here!
Maggie had hardly time to feel that it was Philip come back, before they were in front of the window, and he was raising his hat to her; while his father, catching the movement by a side-glance, looked sharply round at them both.
I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour, or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.
But Raffles had reminded himself by his movement with the flask that it had become dangerously loose from its leather covering, and catching sight of a folded paper which had fallen within the fender, he took it up and shoved it under the leather so as to make the glass firm.
