It's a wonder Divine Providence didn't ketch me up the canyon, and wipe me off the footstool, too!
We'll have to go out and ketch him if we ever expect to git back that mule!
I'm going to toll him across the Valley, where he'll have to come out into the open, and when I ketch him I'm going to scalp him.
Ketch is bargaining for his cast coat and waistcoat; and the Jew demurs at first at three half-crowns, but on consideration that he may get somewhat by showing 'em in the town, finally closes.
Tis twelve o'clock, and Thurtell* is just now coming out upon the new drop, Jack Ketch alertly tucking up his greasy sleeves to do the last office of mortality; yet cannot I elicit a groan or a moral reflection.
I got up, but 'fore I could run a feller yelled, 'Ketch him!
They've got to git up purty early to ketch me asleep," he said proudly.
You don't ketch me stayin' down here alone," and she grabbed the back of his nightshirt as he started for the stairs.
We had met with the ketch Intrepid, from Syracuse, with a cargo of fresh water, stock, and vegetables, for the squadron.
Not a vestige of the ketch or her boats was to be seen.
Fer one copper farthin' I 'd ketch yer one with this hook.
PATCH: If I thought he was a spy, I 'd ketch him right here with me dirk.
PATCH: Askin' your Grice's pardon, I did n't ketch a thing.
It was a mirky night like this, with 'prentices gawpin' in the lanterns and Jack Ketch unsnarlin' his cursed ropes.
I heerd that they was a-lookin' fer us an' was goin' to ketch us if they could.
An' don't let Uncle Joel or Rube ketch you anywhar round hyeh!
Gid failed both with a knife in the back and a salt shaker to ketch it, but you were depending on nothing but a ringdove coo, as far as I can see, when it hopped in your hand.
Then, upright and motionless at the wheel, with the wan radiance of the binnacle lamp floating up over his hollow cheeks and set gaze, he held the ketch southward through the night.
The ketch forged ahead, but the wait was longer than before.
VII Again on the ketch the inevitable reaction overtook him.
The ketch veered again, shipped a crushing weight of water, and responded more slowly than before to a tardy pressure of the rudder.
Woolfolk turned from his scrutiny of the ketch to his companion, and was surprised to see her, with all the joy evaporated from her countenance, clinging rigidly to the rail.
The explosions settled into a dull, regular succession, and he coupled the propeller and slowly maneuvered the ketch up over the anchors, reducing the strain on the hawsers and allowing Halvard to get in the slack.
If he had brought a pistol from the ketch he would have shot Iscah Nicholas without hesitation.
The ketch heeled until the black plain of water rose above his knees, driving at him with a deceitful force, sinking back slowly as the yacht straightened buoyantly.
The yacht swung lightly over the choppy water, and a strong affection for the ketch that had been his home, his occupation, his solace through the past dreary years expanded his heart.
He realized from the action of the ketch that Halvard was steering uncertainly, and that at any moment the Gar might strike and fall off too far for recovery, when she could not live in the pounding surf.
He was certain that, looking for the ketch and unexpectedly finding the bay empty, she would suffer a pang, if only of loneliness.
The bow rose, and the ketch dipped forward over a spent wave.
De women folks has gone for to stir up de relations, en ole Mars Saul en de boys tuck dey guns en rode up de river road for to try to ketch dat young man en kill him 'fo' he kin git acrost de river wid Miss Sophia.
They also told Talbot that neither the captain of the ketch nor Rousby nor his mates paid any attention to Lord Baltimore's officers in St. Mary's.
The council sent messengers south to find out what the captain of the ketch had done with Talbot.
There were ships lying in St. Mary's River, one of them a ketch belonging to His Majesty's navy.
When the magistrate went to the water-front he learned that the ketch had weighed anchor and sailed to the south.
Men on the beach told Talbot and Michael that the captain of the ketch was very friendly with Christopher Rousby, the tax-collector, and the other excisemen.
The two dined at the tavern, and afterward Talbot engaged a fisherman to row them out to the royal ketch in the river.
If dey don't change from de way dey is goin' now de old debbil is gwine to ketch 'em sho.
De mens tried to run dem painters down, but dey never did ketch one.
Evvy time Pappy runned away Marse Billy sicked dem hounds on his heels and dey was sho' to ketch him and fetch him back.
We sho' did ketch the fishes, mostly cats, and perch and heaps and heaps of suckers.
I’ve ben watchin’ out o’ the window all the morning, but I couldn’t ketch a glimpse of you.
You can’t ketch Mis’ Spafford unprepared if you come in the middle o’ the night.
Then he burst out with: "You let me ketch any other man on this ridge puttin' a plow inter the old doctor's land!
She carried no way, nor would she answer to her helm, and some minutes elapsed ere the ketch fell off sufficiently for her canvas to draw.
Every summer the ketch Diomeda puts in an appearance in the Solent, and Hamerton, Detroit, Octavius Smith, and Stirling generally made a point of having a month's cruise together in the stanch little craft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ketch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
