"Catch sight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... steps they at once made their way, then ran at top speed up the alley and out of the end of it into one of the broader streets of the city. They had now got a good start, for it would take some little time for the pirates to ride round, even if they should chance to catch sight of the fugitives. But no shouts were raised behind them to indicate that they had been seen, and they sprinted along over the rough cobbles for all they were worth. There was a large and very handsome building at the end of this road, ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood
... I shall lay some boughs of bush across my face and the kegs, so that there will be no fear of my face showing; and if a sentry should happen to catch sight of it, he will suppose that it is merely a bush ...
— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty
... and I were nearly last. Brown of Lumbwa refused to leave his berth but lay moaning of his wrongs, and the iniquity of drink not based on whisky. I missed Will in the scramble, and although it was nearly half an hour before I got served I did not catch sight of ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... moved through the crowd of tall warriors Bladud could not at first catch sight of ...
— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne
... left much to be learned afterwards, which might with advantage have been learned then, still it was his energy that struck his contemporaries. I have a story from one of them that when the other students used to go out into the court of the hospital after lectures were over, they would invariably catch sight of young Huxley's dark head at a certain window bent over a microscope while they amused themselves outside. The constant silhouette framed in the outlines of the window tickled the fancy of the young fellows, and a wag amongst them ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
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