I've been through a good deal lately; and sometimes it ketches me round the heart like a pain.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
"If this town ketches afire and burns up, I hope you run into the ditch before you git ten mile!
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
It only serves the purpose of a harbour for the ketches or fishing-boats apparently, and a very awkward harbour it makes too when a distracted ketch harassed by the strong flowing tide and baffled by a teasing wind, noses this way and that and fails to hit the narrow entrance.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton