Under this colour one discovered the Mecca of water-catchers in the form of an iron contrivance operating by means of a stubby lever which, when pressed down, yielded grudgingly a spout of whiteness.
All snake-catchers of Bengal are provided with a bundle of the roots of some plant which they carefully carry along with them, when they set out on their serpent-hunting expeditions.
The Mals or snake-catchers signalise themselves on this occasion.
But many of the rat-catchers make shorter work, and content themselves with what can be brought together in one night or two; but this is never effectual, unless where the building is small and entire, and the rats but few in number.
Some catchers block off the plate so that a man has got to shoot his spikes at them to get through, and I'm not saying that it's bad catching, because that is the way to keep a man from scoring.
It is Brown's perfect control that has permitted catchers like Kling and Archer to make such great records as throwers.
That is why so many catchers devote time to looking for this signal.
That is the reason why so many high-class catchers have been developed by the Chicago Cubs.
He's tryin' to horn my friend Bill out of a job," I have heard catchers charge against a youngster.
But the catchers found that certain clubs were making this play in routine fashion, the runner on first starting with the pitch, and the one on third making his break just as soon as the catcher drew back his arm.
One of the slave-catchers was left to see that the fugitive did not get away, while the others went in pursuit of an officer.
It was now late in the morning, and the slave-catchers were a long way from home, and the horses were jaded by the rapid manner in which they had travelled.
Allured with the prospect of a large sum of the needful, the slave-catchers started back with their victim.
The implements for opening the door are at length obtained and after another half-hour, the slave-catchers are in the barn.
The negro-catchers urged their claim to the slave, and intimated that, unless they were allowed to secure him, they would force their way in.
In April and May the bird-catchers go round and collect the nestlings in order to sell them at four annas apiece.
The bird-catchers spend six weeks every year in obtaining cattle-egret plumes in this manner.
Our bird-catchers think the large ones that are nearly the shape of the greater redpole form a distinct species, and they give them the name of Fir Goldfinches, because they say they always build in fir forests.
The bird-catchers of the villages about the forests of Hesse seek for birds that possess it, and actively pursue the songsters.
It is principally in autumn, and in places filled with reeds, that the bird-catchers take great numbers of starlings in nets prepared for the purpose.
Bird-catchers give these also the name of yellow linnets.
Skilful bird-catchers will soon discover the means of catching the bird: snares and limed twigs, with grasshoppers and other living and moving insects for bait, will probably accomplish this end.
As soon as one arrives from a neighbouring country whose notes appear good, all the bird-catchers are after it, and do not give up the pursuit till they have taken it.
We are furnished with house birds by the bird catchersand bird sellers; the latter procure foreign birds, and teach them, the former the indigenous ones.
Some bird-catchers say that the tits with forked tails are alone addicted to this, but they are mistaken; it is certainly true that some are more cruel than others, experience teaches us this every day.
The bird-catchers ensnare it on account of its charming song.
Bird-catchers have been very destructive to this noble, useful bird on the Continent.
Bird-catchers profit by this, and they fasten him to a bough to act as a lure.
But, as a rule, the full-grown hawks which come into the market are captives which have been taken on the autumnal passage by the professional hawk-catchers of Valkenswaard, in North Brabant.
In this way little Principal opened the secret volume of the Stock Exchange frauds, and exposed to our view the vile traffic carried on there by the flat-catchers of the money market.
Seeing his condition, the slave-catchers retreated, coolly remarking that "dead niggers were not worth taking South.
The next instant I was covering them with my revolver, and the wild shrimp-catchers were cowering and cringing away.
The beautiful beaches of Points Pedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers villages, are made fearful by the stench from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction it has ever been the duty of the fish patrol to act.
Again I ordered the shrimp-catchers to lend a hand with the buckets.
One day, while scouting among the Chinese shrimp-catchers of Point Pedro, he received word that his wife was very ill; and within the hour the Reindeer was bowling along for Oakland, with a stiff northwest breeze astern.
The shrimp-catchers pointed at it and looked to me questioningly.
Most rat-catchers keep a bottle of spirits of tar, with which they dress the affected parts.
Then many old rat-catchers never give a ferret a rat with its tail on, as they believe there is poison in it.
As male birds are exposed by the English bird-catchers for a decoy near a trap, in order to catch other males by exciting their rivalry, so the females of this Turnix are employed in India.
Jenner Weir that the bird-catchers can distinguish the males by their slightly longer beaks.
She had been caught by the nets spread by bird-catchers to entrap finches, larks, and other small birds.
The turtle catcherswould of course find that retreat.
Do you suppose the turtle catchers will remain long?
I am informed by Mr. Jenner Weir, that the bird-catchers assert that this is invariably the case with the nightingale and blackcap, and with respect to the latter he can himself confirm the statement.
The great king granted their request, and presently all the bird-catchers in the country were enriched by the spoil of dead hoopoes.
Bird-catchers and jungle-folk at large imitate all bird and animal cries with surprising skill.
So the crest of feathers was given instead, and the bird-catchers ceased from troubling.
His tiger catchers remain in the woods all the time, and he has a pleasant way of presenting the animals they catch to friends in India, England and elsewhere.
His Highness keeps a staff of tiger hunters and catchers for amusement.
The teacher calls the name of a bird, whereupon all of the players who bear that name run from the forest to the nest, but the bird catchers try to intercept them.
Two other players take the part of bird catchers and stand midway between nest and cage.
The distance of the bird catchersfrom the nest may be determined with a little experience, it being necessary to place a handicap upon them to avoid the too easy capture of the birds.
In the placing of players it is desirable to place the best catchers as club guards and the best throwers as forwards.
Should a bird be caught by the bird catcher, it is put in the cage, but a bird is safe from the bird catchers if it once reaches the nest and the mother bird.
One day, while scouting among the Chinese shrimp-catchers of Point Pedro, he received word that his wife was very ill; and within the hour the Reindeer was bowling along for Oakland, with a stiff northwest breeze astern.
Untorn leaves would condemn Mahana to the ovens to be baked alive, and the spirit catchers would be called by the sorcerers to seize the escaped ghost and carry it back to spirit-land.
Black-and-white oyster-catchers were always to be found chattering over the great mussel patches at low water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
