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Fetch   /fɛtʃ/   Listen
Fetch

verb
(past & past part. fetched; pres. part. fetching)
1.
Go or come after and bring or take back.  Synonyms: bring, convey, get.  "Could you bring the wine?" , "The dog fetched the hat"
2.
Be sold for a certain price.  Synonyms: bring, bring in.  "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
3.
Take away or remove.
noun
1.
The action of fetching.



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"Fetch" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I have some of my own to put along with them. Go and fetch my basket; I have not yet had time to look into it since ...
— The Little Savage • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... capitals in Europe sent in their claims; and all the movable effects transmitted to Alain by his father's confidential Italian valet, except sundry carriages and horses which were sold at Baden for what they would fetch, were a magnificent dressing-case, in the secret drawer of which were some bank-notes amounting to thirty thousand francs, and three large boxes containing the Marquis's correspondence, a few miniature female portraits, and a great many locks ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... at last, when he could not arrange my exchange, he had been reluctantly compelled to fill it up. This, of course, added to my annoyance at having been made prisoner. The parcel of clothes was very valuable, for I found that they would fetch a high price in the place, and as in that warm climate a very small supply was sufficient, I resolved on selling the greater portion of them. This I forthwith did, at a price which enabled me to pay all my debts at the hucksters' shops, and gave me a good sum besides. I thought that it would ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston

... one from another. Boiardo has imitated Pulci, and Ariosto Boiardo. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou


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