Gotten

Examples

• Couldn't we have gotten away any sooner? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• You shall keep your ill-gotten money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Some conception of the enormous scale upon which grain is raised in the Western States may be gotten from the dimensions of the farms. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And we have gotten away from the war. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Except for the awful thing you've gotten into. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• If we could have gotten clear, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Some may have gotten out. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I've no doubt his visit to England was paid for out of his ill-gotten gains. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There is, however, one late instance of an English merchant who will not profit by such ill-gotten gain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I was sure we could have gotten through to the south if they had not fired on us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But according to Pilar, Maria has just gotten sound again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Certainly it weighed no more than that girl and if the old woman had been over them they would have gotten it away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was a battery of naval guns that had gotten on his nerves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I had gotten them immune to it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They had both gotten sullen as he talked. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had gotten this helmet at the blowing up of the train. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It would be well if such an excursion could be gotten up every year and the system regularly inaugurated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He examined it carefully and was surprised to find that it had seemingly kept in perfect condition, the only trouble being that the water had gotten into his pan and his meat was all wet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We were very hungry but she said that would all have to be gotten out of me in the morning. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They must have gotten some troops along the road. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I know the mess you've gotten this girl into. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I wish we'd gotten married. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Glumdalclitch and I were much fatigued: I had gotten a small cold, but the poor girl was so ill as to be confined to her chamber. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I ha' gotten decent fewtrils about me agen. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The sniper had gotten carefully behind the boulder again and Lieutenant Berrendo was squatting beside him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You haven't gotten very far in this business. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card-gains. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Bonita