"Catch sight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scores of people had found it in their way to walk past the cottage, hoping to catch sight of Jerrie, while several went in and told her how glad they were for her and Mr. Arthur, and looked at her with wondering eyes as if she were not quite the same girl they had known as ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... party a couple of hundred yards, when the devil by which he was possessed began to wake up. The mustangs belonging to the plantation were grazing some three quarters of a mile off; and no sooner did my beast catch sight of them, than he commenced practising every species of jump and leap that it is possible for a horse to execute, and many of a nature so extraordinary, that I should have thought no brute that ever went on four legs would have been able to accomplish them. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various
... them in the night, and take a mighty vengeance for the woes they have inflicted. But, being alone, we will remain here till we have reason to believe that the last Roman has left. Did one of them catch sight of you, our fate would be sealed. They have no boys among them, and the slightest glimpse of your figure would be enough to tell them that you were a Jew who had been in hiding and, in their fear that one man should escape their vengeance, they would hunt you down, as a pack of wolves might ...
— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty
... as the full moon, Diraz, rash and presumptuous youth that he was, managed to catch sight of, and immediately he became desperately, ...
— Tales of the Caliph • H. N. Crellin
... to know who lost this," went on the man, as he opened the flap of the pocket-book, and gazed inside at the contents. "By Jove! look at that pile of bills!" he went on, as he turned the pocket-book around so that Matt might catch sight of what certainly did look like twenty-five or thirty bank bills tucked away in one of the pockets. "Must be a hundred dollars or more ...
— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer
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