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Example sentences for "caught glimpses"

  • Beyond the bushes he caught glimpses of their ponies grazing, and these glimpses were sufficient to show him that they had many extra animals for the packs.

  • Then he caught glimpses of the hunters still pursuing and cutting out the fat young cows, but instead of being parallel with the little party in the dip they had now passed far beyond it.

  • The flames leaped higher, and he caught glimpses of dusky figures hovering among the bushes, wolves, bears and he knew not what, because imagination was very lively within him then and he had traveled back to a primordial time.

  • Once in a while I caught glimpses of great red houses, with stately pillars, among the trees.

  • I caught glimpses of the master on occasions only, and then I avoided him; for I knew he had no wish to see me.

  • It was ablaze with candles, and I caught glimpses of fine gentlemen and ladies in the rooms.

  • At length we began to go down into the valley where Chouteau's pond was, and we caught glimpses of the shimmering of its waters through the trees, ay, and presently heard them tumbling lightly over the mill-dam.

  • What was more, after looking intently for several minutes I had the impression that I caught glimpses of one or two people moving about aboard the wreck.

  • Furthermore, there was a moon, that night, well advanced in her second quarter, and at frequent intervals during a particularly restless night I caught glimpses of shadowy forms moving restlessly hither and thither ashore.

  • We caught glimpses of them, flashing through the trees; or occasionally standing, gazing in our direction, their slender necks stretched high, their ears pointed for us.

  • Ahead of us we caught glimpses of the sleek bounding black and white creature, running up the long slanting limbs, and dropping like a plummet into the lower branches of the next tree.

  • Here were rustlings, sudden scurryings, half-caught glimpses, once or twice a crash as some greater animal made off.

  • We caught glimpses of them occasionally slipping from bush to bush.

  • Here the shore grew steep; and at one point high up we caught glimpses of the little village of Claremont.

  • As we sailed along we caught glimpses to port of the warm, red walls of a stately building that we knew to be Westover.

  • The women were shut inside the hut the whole time, and occasionally, when the rafts drifted alongside, we caught glimpses of them peering shyly at us through the little glazed window.

  • A covered araba concealed the mother and daughters: we caught glimpses of tawdry garments and towzled heads.

  • He caught glimpses only of horse and foot as they passed, but he knew what all those sights and sounds portended.

  • He saw gathering over himself and his slaughtered comrades a great column of smoke, pierced by innumerable jets of fire, and he caught glimpses of the swart faces of the Mexicans as they pulled triggers.

  • Many more shots were fired and he caught glimpses of other faces, Indian in type like the first.

  • But he could hear the stamp of horses' feet clearly now, and both to left and right he caught glimpses of them tethered in the thickets.

  • He read English society novels, wherein he caught glimpses of men and women talking politics and philosophy.

  • A man who has found the path to the hidden temple but has not followed it; who has, perhaps, caught glimpses of the temple and striven afterward to convince himself that it was only a mirage of foliage.

  • Ahead, men were fishing in their sacks and throwing bombs like a pack of boys stoning a snake; I caught glimpses of them furiously at work from where I knelt beside one fallen man after another, desperately busy with my own business.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    address delivered; cannot refuse; caught glimpses; caught her; caught himself; caught hold; caught napping; caught robbing; caught sight; caught the; charcoal fire; dozen steps; excellent character; lips were; long tail; make choice; might redeem; military efficiency; much delicacy; simmer very; slight modifications; sometimes made; speech made; twelve times; until recently; violent agitation