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• The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
• a fetch from a cache
• The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.
• [...] but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death.
• Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
• He fetches his blow quick and sure.
• I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
• to fetch a compass;  to fetch a leap
• Fetching men again when they swoon.
• to fetch a man to
• He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
• They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
• The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
• Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
• The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
• to fetch headway or sternway
• If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000
• My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
• Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
• When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.