to catch Quotes

“I caught more than you did. I caught you!”

“At playtime she twirled and spun across the playground so fast that none of the little boys in her class could catch her, and they were all very annoyed.”

“If you want to catch beasts you don’t see every day, you have to go place quite out-of-the-way. You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have to get wet, too.”

“Duffy saw a lorry. ‘Stop!’ Duffy shouted. ‘I must catch up with the runaway train!‘”

“Oh. I know he’s not perfect. He has some bad habits. He runs after cars. He catches some of them.”

“Not today,′ said Mr. Tod. ‘But there is not food in the house,’ cried Mrs. Tod. ‘What!’ cried Mr. Tod. ‘I went hunting yesterday. I even missed the cubs’ bedtime.′ ‘I know,’ sighed Mrs. Tod.‘But you didn’t catch anything.”

″ And the ice-cream man, and the pork butcher, and the baker, and the snack-bar man, and the grocer, and the lady from the sweet shop, and the barrow boy, all went BUMP into a heap.”

“ ‘I’ve got it!’ he cried. ‘I could climb up this plant, swing from the leaves, kick the trap door open and jump in!’ In case it wobbled, Bramwell Brown, Duck and Rabbit steadied the pot. Little Bear bravely climbed up the plant until he reached the very top leaf. He took hold of it and started to swing to and fro, but he swung so hard that the lead broke and he went crashing down. Luckily, Bramwell Brown was right underneath to catch him in his paws.”

“Again and again, due justice must be rendered the investigating commission. It had done everything possible not only to catch the criminals but also to explain everything they had done.”

“There was a Young Lady of Wales, Who caught a large Fish without scales; When she lifted her hook, she exclaimed, ‘Only look!’ That ecstatic Young Lady of Wales.”

“Little Tommy Tittlemouse, Lived in a little house; He caught fishes In other men’s ditches.”

“I call him Mullet Fingers ’cause he can catch mullet with his bare hands. You know how hard that is?”

They’re out to catch interlopers, and Nenna is the only village schoolgirl to “walk property” with a gun..”

“The last rays of the sun catching the topsails of Sentinel. In London the gas-lights on, dinner over, the theatres filling, the dosshouses full, the city clocks striking nine.”

“Closer and closer swooped the fishing birds near Ping. Now Ping could see shining rings around their necks, rings of metal made so tight the birds could never swallow the big fish they were catching. ”

″‘Well, I don’t know how you expect to escape that way!’ he said. ‘You’ll have to come down the steps again, and I shall be waiting here to catch you. Then what a spanking you’ll get!‘”

“Smirre Fox thought he could catch her without much effort, but he was afraid of failure now, and concluded to let her fly past–unmolested.”