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  • You just happened to get caught on camera.
  • She caught her breath.
  • It triggers your house's fire system if it detects it has caught on fire.
  • Carmen caught her breath.
  • She raised her face to look at him and caught Sarah and Connie making a hasty exit from the room.
  • Carmen caught her breath - and the denial.
  • The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that was not so very disagreeable to bear.
  • I knew it when he caught you alone beside the pool.
  • Walking so fast that it created a breeze that caught the loose hair hanging down her back, she turned her ankle slipping off her sandals.
  • He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly.
  • He glanced up and caught her watching him.
  • The good woman was so overjoyed that she caught him in her arms and kissed him.
  • She started to put the pillow down and caught the movement in the mirror from the corner of her eye.
  • Once again he had caught her napping.
  • Connie caught her breath So you were the one who told him how to get to the house.
  • There were pigs and goats on the island, and plenty of fish could be caught from the shore.
  • She caught her breath as another thought struck her.
  • Our greatest Champion, Overman-Anu, once climbed the spiral stairway and fought nine days with the Gargoyles before he could escape them and come back; but he could never be induced to describe the dreadful creatures, and soon afterward a bear caught him and ate him up.
  • "At a hotel in Huntsville, but I haven't rented a room yet," she blurted out, and then caught her breath.
  • Dorothy sprang forward and caught the fluffy fowl in her arms, uttering at the same time a glad cry.
  • "She's been caught in a trap some time, I guess," said Putnam.
  • Then he caught up another piglet and pushed it into the first, where it disappeared.
  • I called her attention to the following line, and, although she knew only the three words, CAT, EAT and MOUSE, she caught the idea.
  • These words she had caught without instruction from the lips of friends.
  • It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
  • She started for the door again, but he caught her arm.
  • Some of the Greeks said that an eagle caught him in her beak and carried him unharmed to the bottom.
  • The name and idea caught on, and by mid-January the biggest names of the day were promoting it on their shows: Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, and Rudy Vallee, to name but a few.
  • But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.
  • Adrienne caught her breath.
  • James caught the cowpox, recovered, and then Jenner variolated him.
  • Tikhon caught it and handed it to a footman.
  • She pushed away from him and caught her breath sharply.
  • Yancey expertly caught the head of the serpent between the forks of a stick and bent over to pick it up.
  • Carmen caught her breath and stared at him.
  • Something blue in the shadow of the trees caught her attention.
  • She caught her breath.
  • Apparently time had caught up with Mom before she could finish.
  • The newspapers caught Mr. Anagnos's spirit and exaggerated a hundred-fold.
  • Stopping suddenly, she caught her breath.
  • A couple of wing-backed chairs and sofa sank luxuriously into that thick wine carpet, but what caught her full attention was the wide curving staircase.
  • The movement caught Giddon's attention and he glanced from Tammy to Lisa with a puzzled expression.
  • To her surprise, she caught Connie at home.
  • She caught her breath.
  • She glanced back at him sharply and caught her breath.
  • He's all caught up with his computers.
  • She caught her breath.
  • But having caught himself saying too much about the flints, he was now afraid to speak out.
  • She caught her breath and glanced at him in the mirror.
  • But eventually it would have caught up with you.
  • She let the conversation drop that night, but early the next morning Dulce caught him in the hallway and it was clear that she didn't think anything was settled.
  • Carmen caught her breath.
  • She caught him watching her several times, obviously wondering why she was so quiet.
  • She replaced the checkbook and started to close the drawer, but a thick envelope caught her attention.
  • If he caught her in the woods, she could say she was looking for wild flowers.
  • Lisa caught her breath.
  • She darted around him and ran for the door, but he caught her half way.
  • You must have known what Allen would do to me if he caught me alone.
  • Then when I caught him spying on me at the restaurant in Huntsville...
  • Lisa caught her breath and stared in amazement.
  • He turned and walked down the street, and after a moment's hesitation Dorothy caught Eureka in her arms and climbed into the buggy.
  • The Wizard reached out, caught the wee creature in his hand, and holding its head between one thumb and finger and its tail between the other thumb and finger he pulled it apart, each of the two parts becoming a whole and separate piglet in an instant.
  • With this he caught up two of the piglets and pushed them together, so that the two were one.
  • The Mangaboos saw her escape, and several of them caught up their thorns and gave chase, mounting through the air after her.
  • "What brought you back?" was the next question, and Dorothy's eye rested on an antlered head hanging on the wall just over the fireplace, and caught its lips in the act of moving.
  • In Wrentham we caught echoes of what was happening in the world--war, alliance, social conflict.
  • Instantly she caught the idea, and asked me to find DOG and many other words.
  • I caught fish with hook and line and pole.
  • Of course, he soon noticed the brightness of the leaves, and discovered the cause, too, when he caught sight of the broken jars and vases from which the melted treasure was still dropping.
  • Frequently he would leave his dinner in the bushes, when his dog had caught a woodchuck by the way, and go back a mile and a half to dress it and leave it in the cellar of the house where he boarded, after deliberating first for half an hour whether he could not sink it in the pond safely till nightfall--loving to dwell long upon these themes.
  • Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.
  • Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others.
  • Oh, he got worms out of rotten logs since the ground froze, and so he caught them.
  • It is surprising that they are caught here--that in this deep and capacious spring, far beneath the rattling teams and chaises and tinkling sleighs that travel the Walden road, this great gold and emerald fish swims.
  • The tenant of the air, it seemed related to the earth but by an egg hatched some time in the crevice of a crag;--or was its native nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth?
  • Prince Andrew caught him by the hand.
  • She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and fear appeared on her flushed face.
  • A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it.
  • It swayed and fell, but caught on the muskets of the nearest soldiers.
  • Today, when he had caught a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely.
  • He caught himself harboring such strange thoughts that he was frightened.
  • I caught myself harboring a feeling of hatred toward him which I vainly tried to overcome.
  • Pierre came up to him and caught him by the arm.
  • The despairing, dejected expression of Natasha's face caught his eye.
  • "There, that's me!" the expression of her face seemed to say as she caught sight of herself.
  • Simon did not finish, for on the still air he had distinctly caught the music of the hunt with only two or three hounds giving tongue.
  • When he caught sight of the count his eyes flashed lightning.
  • The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh--beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing.
  • Then he caught her up.
  • When she was not looking at him she felt that he was looking at her shoulders, and she involuntarily caught his eye so that he should look into hers rather than this.
  • On the Arbat Square the troyka caught against a carriage; something cracked, shouts were heard, and the troyka flew along the Arbat Street.
  • The French dragoon officer was hopping with one foot on the ground, the other being caught in the stirrup.
  • But in spite of this he continued to struggle desperately forward, and from between the backs of those in front he caught glimpses of an open space with a strip of red cloth spread out on it; but just then the crowd swayed back--the police in front were pushing back those who had pressed too close to the procession: the Emperor was passing from the palace to the Cathedral of the Assumption--and Petya unexpectedly received such a blow on his side and ribs and was squeezed so hard that suddenly everything grew dim before his eyes and he lost consciousness.
  • He knew Kutuzov's attention would be caught by those words, and so it was.
  • Through the smoke glimpses could be caught of something black--probably men--and at times the glint of bayonets.
  • Then the count embraced Mavra Kuzminichna and Vasilich, who were to remain in Moscow, and while they caught at his hand and kissed his shoulder he patted their backs lightly with some vaguely affectionate and comforting words.
  • If we're caught, I won't be taken alive!
  • But the princess had caught a glimpse of the man she had known and loved, and it was to him that she now spoke.
  • You should have seen her ecstasy, and how he caught it for having stayed away so long.
  • When Señor Medena introduced the girl as his daughter, Carmen caught her breath and looked at Alex for an explanation.
  • Once again he had caught her ogling him.
  • For a moment her heart beat overtime and it looked as though she might fall, but Alex smoothly caught her and stepped around, covering her fumbling so well that no one appeared to notice.
  • She caught up with Dulce at the top of the stairs.
  • Even so, she caught Alex watching her with a strange expression several times.
  • Maybe it caught up with him.
  • Carmen caught her breath.
  • Pulling Alex's pillow from the bed, Carmen caught the faint whiff of his cologne.
  • He didn't comment, but several times that evening she caught him watching her with a reflective expression.
  • She applied the brakes and the dust cloud caught up, cloaking the road so thickly that visibility was down to the front of the car.
  • She tentatively lifted a foot into the front seat, and knew a moment of panic when her sandal heel caught in the hem of her dress.
  • Belatedly, her mind caught up with her mouth.
  • Connie caught her breath.
  • A movement behind caught her attention and she stopped.
  • She caught him alone in the hallway after supper, while Julia and Rachel were in the kitchen doing dishes.
  • In 1796, he extracted fluid from the pox on the hand of a dairymaid named Sarah Nelmes—who had caught the condition from her cow Blossom—and injected the fluid into a cut in eight-year-old James Phipps's arm.
  • Finally Belle got up, shook herself, and was about to walk away, when Helen caught her by the neck and forced her to lie down again.
  • And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, and began dancing round the room with it.
  • And on my honor, in spite of the cough I caught there, I should be ready to begin again.
  • In Petersburg and in the provinces at a distance from Moscow, ladies, and gentlemen in militia uniforms, wept for Russia and its ancient capital and talked of self-sacrifice and so on; but in the army which retired beyond Moscow there was little talk or thought of Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters.
  • There were no industrious workmen, and the peasants caught the commissaries who ventured too far out of town with the proclamation and killed them.
  • And they caught all that and put it into a shed boarded up with planks!
  • Pierre caught a glimpse of a man in a three-cornered hat with a tranquil look on his handsome, plump, white face.
  • If he fell into my hands, when I'd caught him I'd bury him in the ground with an aspen stake to fix him down.
  • She caught her breath, warmth crawling up her neck again.
  • She caught her breath.
  • She caught her breath.
  • Anna Mikhaylovna, stooping, quickly caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom.
  • He reined in his horse with the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his saber which had caught in his cloak.
  • She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.
  • When her attention returned to the others, she caught Señor Medena and Felipa watching them.
  • Carmen caught her breath, instinctively searching the sea of faces.
  • If others are aglow with music, a responding glow, caught sympathetically, shines in her face.
  • One of the wounded, an old soldier with a bandaged arm who was following the cart on foot, caught hold of it with his sound hand and turned to look at Pierre.
  • When it slowed for the drive, the dust caught up, hiding it in a swirling cloud.
  • As she shut the drawer, the envelopes on the top of the desk caught her attention.
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