As for your Elizabeth's picture, you must not have it taken, forwhat painter could do justice to those beautiful eyes?""It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but theircolour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might becopied.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Mr. Darcy, who was leaning against the mantelpiece with his eyes fixedon her face, seemed to catch her words with no less resentment thansurprise.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy himself;but, whenever she did catch a glimpse, she saw an expression of generalcomplaisance, and in all that he said she heard an accent so removedfrom hauteur or disdain of his companions, as convinced her thatthe improvement of manners which she had yesterday witnessed howevertemporary its existence might prove, had at least outlived one day.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Rather short in the waist, ain't it?' said the stranger, screwinghimself round to catch a glimpse in the glass of the waist buttons,which were half-way up his back.
--'Hem! aunt, dear!Yes, my dear love!I'm SO afraid you'll catch cold, aunt--have a silk handkerchief totie round your dear old head--you really should take care ofyourself--consider your age!'However well deserved this piece of retaliation might have been, it wasas vindictive a one as could well have been resorted to.
He thought how often he had run merrilydown that path with some childish playfellow, looking back, ever andagain, to catch his mother's smile, or hear her gentle voice; and thena veil seemed lifted from his memory, and words of kindness unrequited,and warnings despised, and promises broken, thronged upon hisrecollection till his heart failed him, and he could bear it no longer.
Did a slim gentleman try to catch it, it struck him on thenose, and bounded pleasantly off with redoubled violence, while the slimgentleman's eyes filled with water, and his form writhed with anguish.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'We're sure to catch them, I think,' said he.