behold vs catch sight of

behold

verb
  • To look. 

  • To contemplate (someone or something). 

  • To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon. 

intj
  • look, a call of attention to something 

  • lo! 

catch sight of

verb
  • to see for a brief period; to get a glimpse of 

How often have the words behold and catch sight of occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )