no longer , and , armingarmmyself with my two Colt revolvers and a carbine , I strappedstraptwo belts of cartridges about me and catchingcatchmy saddle horse , startedstartdown the trail taken by Powell in the morning .
The picture that was foundfindon a bramble-bush , the new sensitive-plant , or tree , which caughtcatchthe swain by the upper-garment , and presentedpresentto his ravished eyes a portrait .
What had comecomeas straight to him as a ball in a well-played game -- and caughtcatchmoreover not less neatly -- was just the air , in the person of his friend , of having seen and chosen , the air of achieved possession of those vague qualities and quantities that collectively figured to him as the advantage snatched from lucky chances .
There was a ring upon that finger ; a ring with a moonstone setting as large and round as the eye of a startled cat , and the Happy Family caughtcatchthe pale gleam of it and drewdrawa long breath .
One day he was at this game , and did not know that the master was in the next field ; but he was there , watchingwatchwhat was going on ; over the hedge he jumpedjumpin a snap , and catchingcatchDick by the arm , he gave him such a boxboxon the ear as made him roarroarwith the painpainand surprisesurprise.
All she now began by sayingsayto him nevertheless was that , having chanced to catchcatchhis enquiryenquiry, she was moved to askask, by his leave , if it were possibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecticut -- Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer .
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying , smokingsmoke, as was his custom , innumerable cigarettes , Lord Henry Wotton could just catchcatchthe gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum , whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs ; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flittedflitacross the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window , producing a kind of momentary Japanese effecteffect, and making him thinkthinkof those pallid , jade-faced painters of Tokyo who , through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile , seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion .