[Caught, etc.] In the act of wrongdoing.
1The stranger paused in the act of unhobbling the one remaining pony.
2The man and the girl were also in the act of leaving.
3The celebrity paused in the act of lowering another segment of cake.
4No mention was made of the dollar in the act of 1853.
5We start back in horror, as if in the act of profanation.
6Patricia paused in the act of getting into bed and remarked demurely:
7Gerald intervened as he was in the act of questioning the butler.
8The crash that followed stopped Mr. Grey in the act of rising.
9Eugene was in the act of desiring the usher to announce him.
10His confederate was in the act of stepping across the raised threshold.
11Thus the polar reservoirs are despoiled in the act of being opened.
12Then Alice was shown in the act of taking off the uniform.
13He found Uncle Barney in the act of stirring up the fire.
14As it happened, the captain himself was in the act of descending.
15Shorty paused over the candle, in the act of blowing it out.
16The gentleman, in the act of starting the horses, raised his hat.