SYN: Catch, clutch, grasp, seize, lay hold on, lay hands on, [See CATCH].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

In like manner, external beauty is determined merely by pleasure; and it is evident, a beautiful countenance cannot give so much pleasure, when seen at the distance of twenty paces, as when it is brought nearer us.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

BUNTS, costermonger’s perquisites; the money obtained by giving light weight, &c.; costermongers’ goods sold by boys on commission.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

sciccing m. mantle, cloak, cape , Gl . scīd n. thin slip of wood, shingle, billet , Gl, WW .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Every day during the solemnity, many thousand articles of all descriptions were thrown amongst the people to scramble for; such as fowls of different kinds, tickets for corn, clothes, gold, silver, gems, pearls, pictures, slaves, beasts of burden, wild beasts that had been tamed; at last, ships, lots of houses, and lands, were offered as prizes in a lottery.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

“Come, come, gentlemen,” said Mordaunt, impatiently, “let us depart.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Then I heard of the Cripple Creek gold stampede in Colorado.
— from Memories of Old Montana by Con Price

I stood looking at this man throughout his speech with a conviction, constantly growing stronger, that I should be obliged to reply to him at some length.
— from Out of the Hurly-Burly; Or, Life in an Odd Corner by Charles Heber Clark

“Have I tried to swindle some poor fellow just come into the country?” cried Griggs sharply.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn

“Suppose,” suggested Justice Robb, “some upholders of Billy Sunday should go out on the streets with banners on which were painted some of Billy’s catch phrases, and should stand with their backs to the fence, and a curious crowd gathered, some of whom created disorder and threw stones at the carriers of the banners.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

As I went I heard the grey crow croak and the muckle corbie cry "Glonk," somewhere over by the Slock of the Hooden.
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

How it burrows in the sand—How specimens are caught— Cum grano salis —Bamboozling the Spout Fish—Amateur naturalists, and fishermen at the sea-shore, 321 CHAPTER XXIV.
— from Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach by John Harper

There are manufactures in Isfahan other than the 269 successful printing and dyeing of cottons; viz., earthenware, china, brass-work, velvet, satin, tents, coarse cottons, glass, swords, guns, pistols, jewellery, writing paper and envelopes, silk brocades, satins, gunpowder, bookbinding, gold thread, etc.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

The heart of many a silk-robed courtier who had been boasting all day of the deeds he would do when his chance came grew sick at the sound.
— from The Golden Hope: A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. (Robert Higginson) Fuller