uncaught

Updated: June 8, 2025

"I bet she works you," he said jealously. "Oh, no. Not a bit too hard. I love it." "Well," he admitted, "you do look pretty fine, that's a fact. Better than you did at Hudson's. What did you quit for?" Sheila was sober enough now. The moonlight let some of its silver, uncaught by the twinkling aspen leaves, splash down on her face. It seemed to flicker and quiver like the leaves.

Katharine Newlin Burt - Hidden Creek

You see, I have even her name. Once I intended to arrest her and expose you to disgrace, but she had gone. I am glad now that we did not find her. I have a better use for her uncaught, though it annoys me that I cannot yet discover where she was when we searched that house." The cold chill which he had felt before in the presence of this man assailed Prescott again.

Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler - Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond

So each time he has gone to the rebel camp, of late and how he gets there and back into New York uncaught, heaven only knows he has carried a message to brother Ned; and brought back a reply. Thus while he knowingly serves the rebel cause, he ignorantly serves ours too, for he has no notion of what my brother and I correspond about. And so 'tis all arranged.

Robert Neilson Stephens - Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

Uncaught by the whirl of things, undisturbed essentially even by the tide of the civil war, this branch of an old Southern family had lived on in station unaffected, though with fortune perhaps impaired as had been those of many Southern families, including all the Beauchamp line.

Emerson Hough - The Girl at the Halfway House : A Story of the Plains

How can we be be conquerors together when I never, never think of him except as 'poor boy' or 'silly idiot'? Oh no no I can't! I can't! Even if I do save him, what is there in that for me? I want to shine I daren't have hot, dirty, damp hands dragging at me. I can't. I must be free, uncaught "

Leonora Eyles - Captivity

The outlawry of a great part of the seal trade, and the consequent heavy profits of those who are able to make one or two successful cruises uncaught by officers of the law, have attracted thither the reckless and desperate characters of every sea, and with these the revenue cutters have to cope.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - American Merchant Ships and Sailors