Fetched

Examples

• It has fetched a penny. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They fetched her in the pony-chaise, and are going to bring her back. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I returned to the window and fetched it thence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I knew where there were plenty of shawls near at hand; I ran and fetched one. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Instead of entering the house at once he fetched a spade from a little shed and began to work in the garden. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• An anxious quarter of a hour elapsed; the jury came back; the judge was fetched in. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He fetched me a good sum, too, for I bought him cheap of a man that was 'bliged to sell out; so I realized six hundred on him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mrs. Norris fetched breath, and went on again. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Their mamma, however, signifying acquiescence in the project, they fetched their bonnets, and the trio set out. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• However, I am to have my harp fetched to-morrow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I must have come and fetched her and Margaret away. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Hold the candle, said Mr. Rochester, and I took it: he fetched a basin of water from the washstand: Hold that, said he. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Niggers, you know, that's fetched up properly, ha'n't no kind of 'spectations of no kind; so all these things comes easier. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Before bedtime, I was fetched by the man with the wooden leg to appear before him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But you wouldn't have fetched a bundle under your arm, from among that timber, if such was your game! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If any one of them could only have burnt him up at that moment, I would have gone down to the kitchen and fetched it myself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For such reflections appear to the majority far-fetched, and to men of science, commonplace. Plato. The Republic.
• He wants you partickler; and no one else 'll do, as the devil's private secretary said ven he fetched avay Doctor Faustus,' replied Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The civilian fetched them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I found them in the neat kitchen, accompanied by Mrs. Gummidge, who had been fetched from the old boat by Mr. Peggotty himself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And she directly fetched her writing-case, smiling queerly to herself as she bent over the table where it stood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Some of our people could have--ha--fetched them, and taken them home. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She fetched her work, and never did a single stitch of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then they have fetched her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Explaining to Little Dorrit that he would run to the coffee-house for a bottle of wine, Arthur fetched it with all the haste he could use. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But it can be fetched. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I were fetched to Boucher's wife afore seven this morning. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The stable lantern was fetched and lighted. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She dried her eyes, threw aside her book, rose and fetched her sewing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Adrian