Word: catching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wild pitch and McCandless crossed the plate. C. Reed went out, Stevens to Warren, and Smith was put out on an easy grounder to Anderson. R. Reed then got his base on balls and scored on Stevenson's misjudgment of Fincke's hit. Beale made a beautiful running catch of De Forest's hit to short left field and so closed Yale's inning...
...form of both crews was rather bad on account of the roughness of the water. Though the sophomores rowed between 38 and 39 strokes to the minute throughout the race, they splashed a good deal and they did not catch together...
Their weakest spot in the field was at shortstop, Ide makeing two inexcusable errors. Clark was rather wild, but he held Harvard down to six hits with a total of eight. Towne at right field played a good game and made a splendid catch in the third inning. The score...
...gives dignity and something which may almost be called repose, to every motion. If the jar be of classical outline, as it often is, our pleasure is heightened. So in the matter of expression. The first requisite is (as Mrs. Glasse says in her receipt for jugged hare-first catch your hare) to catch your thought or feeling as the case may be, perhaps I ought rather to say be caught by it. Let that be honest, manly and sincere. Then the problem is, like that of the girl with the water jar, to bring it home to your reader...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement...