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Example sentences for "caught sight"

  • Then he caught sight of legs and hindquarters a few feet up the cliff from the bottom.

  • The next moment he caught sight of the two, and stood still, waiting for them to come up.

  • Left alone with these, he caught sight of the king, and the close throng about him.

  • Just as the sacrifice ended, the seer, Arexion the Parrhasian, caught sight of an eagle, which boded well, and bade Xenophon lead on.

  • One of Menon's men, who was splitting wood, caught sight of Clearchus as he rode past, and aimed a blow at him with his axe.

  • I thought if he caught sight of me, I was in for a biting first, and the police after.

  • Forgetting his appearance, he walked towards the door, determined to make inquiries, but as he passed a little pond full of gold and silver fishes, he caught sight of himself and turned to find the door to the kitchen.

  • At this moment I caught sight of two more children approaching.

  • But the moment he caught sight of Carina his embarrassment vanished, and his rough features were illuminated with an intense emotion.

  • Then, about noon, when he had worked his way far down the river, he caught sight of something which made his heart stand still.

  • This exclamation afforded him a little solace, and a sort of reddish reflection which he caught sight of at that moment, at the extremity of a long and narrow lane, completed the elevation of his moral tone.

  • From the moment when the archdeacon caught sight of this stranger, his attention seemed divided between him and the dancer, and his face became more and more gloomy.

  • Nevertheless, he caught sight of the archdeacon prone upon the earth in the mud.

  • Then, as we looked, the levee became an esplanade shaded by rows of willows, and through them we caught sight of the upper galleries and low, curving roofs of the city itself.

  • He caught sight of me, halted, backed, and stood staring with widened eyes.

  • And once, as we drifted into an inlet at sunset, we caught sight of the shaggy head of a bear above the brown water, and leaping down into the cabin I primed the rifle that stood there and shot him.

  • Once in a while we caught sight of a yellow blaze in a tree, made by himself scarce a month gone, when he came southward alone to fetch Polly Ann.

  • He told us there was no fear of redskins here, yet, when the scream of a painter or the hoot of an owl stirred me from my exhausted slumber, I caught sight of him with his back to a tree, staring into the forest, his rifle at his side.

  • Not a human creature was to be caught sight of in the paths they took.

  • In the course of half an hour Mary thought she could tell too, and when he cut through a lifeless-looking branch she would cry out joyfully under her breath when she caught sight of the least shade of moist green.

  • They were working industriously round one of the biggest standard roses when he caught sight of something which made him utter an exclamation of surprise.

  • You're round the corner now,' cried Miss Pecksniff.

  • And then, all of a sudden, a little way up the ferny grassy hillside, I caught sight of the end of a book half hidden among the ferns.

  • In my dilemma, I caught sight of a pretty book lying near her fishing-basket, and diverted the talk by venturing to ask its name.

  • He was presently within hail, and, looking up, caught sight of me.

  • The young landlady, though much occupied with the count, and still more with the bastard, caught sight of Denys, and asked him somewhat anxiously what had become of his young companion?

  • Now it happened he caught sight of Giles sitting on the top of the balcony; so he stopped and began to make fun of him.

  • As he left the school he caught sight of Margaret's face at the window of a neighbouring house she always lodged at when she came to Deventer.

  • He caught sight of her, occasionally, going to the village with a heavier step than usual.

  • Suddenly he caught sight of the net full of gudgeons, lying forgotten in the grass.

  • Whenever I caught sight of one of these individuals in a hotel I fled like the birds who see a scarecrow in a field.

  • I went for them with a clear start of a hundred yards, and would have won easy, only that I saw they were station cattle; and at the same time I caught sight of another little lot in a hollow to the left, and Bat travelling for them.

  • When I caught sight of him, he was in the act of settling himself more comfortably, and adjusting his wide-brimmed hat over his face.

  • After a while, daylight came, and I caught sight of the wool, and tumbled to the little game.

  • Bob snatched her up the instant he caught sight of her, but we all saw that it was too late.

  • For two more days it ran, from dawn to dark, till at last early one morning it caught sight of a large town, which gave it fresh courage.

  • Petru stopped for a moment when he caught sight of this terrible creature.

  • When the prince stepped over the threshold he caught sight of a maiden of wonderful beauty, with brown eyes and fair curly hair.

  • He was a very hard-hearted man, for he could not bear poor people, and if he caught sight of a beggar anywhere near his house, he would order the servants to drive him away, or would set the dogs at him.

  • Once more he strained his eyes to see if there was no place in which he could take shelter, and this time he caught sight of a small chapel in a little clearing.

  • It was very dark, and rain was still falling, but as the light streamed out into the gloom I fancied that I caught sight of a dusky form gliding away.

  • Evidently the herd had travelled fast and far, and I began to think that we should have to give it up, when suddenly I caught sight of a brown mass moving through the thorn-trees on the side of a slope about a quarter of a mile away.

  • As flash followed flash, from time to time I caught sight of the two wizards.

  • I began to wonder what on earth I should do when I caught sight of the play-bill.

  • At the corner of the pine-wood he caught sight of Sir Geoffrey Clouston, the duchess's brother, jerking two spent cartridges out of his gun.

  • When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up.

  • I, hunting along one of the wide grass bottom lands, caught sight of a herd of an especially fine impalla.

  • We took about twenty boys into the jungle with us, and as soon as we caught sight of a colobus we chased him madly.

  • About eight o'clock, however, while looking through my glasses, I caught sight of some tiny chunky black dots crawling along below the mountains diagonally across the valley, and somewhat over three miles away.

  • Through this shimmer we caught sight of something large and black and flapping.

  • When he caught sight of one of these animals his whole countenance changed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another man; appellate jurisdiction; backward glance; came close; caught glimpses; caught her; caught himself; caught hold; caught robbing; caught sight; caught the; comparatively little; economic zone; gambling houses; giving them; great adventure; her brow; hereditary descent; high resistance; infectious disease; large and; nine millions; the dry; through his; until brown; varicose veins