I'm sure he'll catch at this offer.

' cried George of Angus, starting up; but he staggered and had to catch at Ringan.

" If Newnham does not teach women to originate-which a thousand Newnhams will never do-it teaches them to catch at an idea and develop it.

Let us suppose that she had, next to her body, a light strong band round her shoulders and across her chest, with a pendant attached of a black band or cord, with a hook or other catch at the end which could be tucked out of sight in her dress front when not in use.


The rosy buds all gone brown and spread out blobs and on the hills nought but dry flag and faggots that would catch at first fire.

It's hard to make a serious case for Lawrence Kasdan's Mumford , which has apparently flopped but which you can still catch at second- and third-tier theaters.

That, in the Instant of sinking, he may finally compel him to catch at his Creator; and to throw himself on the Bosom, of that infinite Benevolence, which is desirous of receiving him to everlasting Rest.

She was also so enfeebled, by her faintish and sick Fits, that she was not able to make a third of her usual Earnings; and as I, on my Part, was also disqualified from labouring in my Profession, since I did not dare to leave my Child alone and unsheltered, we were reduced to a State of the greatest Extremity. [Page 273] One Day, Word was brought me that a Gentleman, a few Doors off, desired to speak with me; and as they, who are sinking, catch at any thing for their Support, my Heart flutter'd in the Hope of some happy Reverse.

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Harry then opened his Arms to receive his Friend, while Ned leaped and catched at him, as the grapling Iron of a Corsair would catch at a Ship from which great Prize was expected, All the Family then, so highly as they had been obliged by our Hero and his Father, struggled who should be foremost in their Acknowledgments and Caresses.

You will call for and catch at a Saviour, in the Sensibility of your Want of him.

The gentleman, on his part, seemed highly charmed with Amelia, and in fact was so, for, though he restrained himself entirely within the rules of good breeding, yet was he in the highest degree officious to catch at every opportunity of shewing his respect, and doing her little services.

I'll catch at it, however desperate.

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