Fetched Sentence Examples

Will you have them fetched back?

The count had the father fetched, but the fellow stuck to it.

And, when Henry had succeeded to the crown on the announcement of Baldwin's death, it was Villehardouin who fetched home his bride Agnes of Montferrat, and shortly afterwards commanded under him in a naval battle with the ships of Theodore Lascaris at the fortress of Cibotus.

According to other accounts, having been made prisoner by a stratagem of Odysseus, he declared that Philoctetes must be fetched from Lemnos before Troy could be taken; or he surrendered to Diomedes and Odysseus in the temple of Apollo, whither he had fled in disgust at the sacrilegious murder of Achilles by Paris in the sanctuary.

Quite beside themselves, Yakov Alpatych; they've fetched another barrel.

Then the word which means "fetched" is confused with the word which means "bored," and gains the sense of "robbed."

It was he who suggested that Neoptolemus and Philoctetes should be fetched from Scyros and Lemnos to Troy, and he was one of those who advised the construction of the wooden horse.

The style is far out, but not far fetched.

By his directions Harrison then fetched in a small band of Cromwell's musketeers and compelled the speaker Lenthall to vacate the chair.

Moorgate is said to have fetched £166, Aldersgate £91, Aldgate £177, Cripplegate £90, and Ludgate £148.

That year, however, was an unusually bad year; the lamperns, from their scarcity, fetched £8, ios.

They can hardly have fetched it themselves from the Baltic or the North Sea; it came to them by two wellmarked routes, one from the Baltic to the Adriatic, the other up the Rhine and down the Rhone.

His skill, indeed, was such that lenses of his making were much sought after, and those found in his cabinet after his death fetched a high price.

We append the pedigree of Blair Athol, winner of the Derby and St Leger in 1864, who, when subsequently sold by auction, fetched the then unprecedented sum of 12,000 guineas, as it contains, not only Stockwell (the emperor of stallions, as he has been termed), but Blink Bonny and Eleanor - in which latter animal are combined the blood of Eclipse, Herod, Matchem and Snap, - the mares that won the Derby in 1801 and 1857 respectively, as well as those queens of the stud, Eleanor's greatgranddaughter Pocahontas and Blink Bonny's dam Queen Mary.

The money they fetched went into the hands of the drug barons.

This feature of the tale contains some hint of the long nightless summer in the Arctic regions, which perhaps reached the Greeks through the merchants who fetched amber from the Baltic coasts.

The captain fetched a breath, stepped back against the figure-head, and instantly redirected his glances after Huish.

For folio books published earlier than 1970 please ask at the Enquiries Desk and they will be fetched for you from the basement stacks.

You have a maroon dress, have it fetched.

Shoes were not just a luxury, but also a necessity that lasted for years and fetched a very pretty penny.

While he is sometimes self-loathing and sometimes self-exalting, his adventures are far fetched enough to be interesting but not so far fetched that kids can't imagine themselves in Greg's shoes.

But with the current trend in gaming and the pattern established by the lovelorn age of gamers, it isn't as far fetched as you may think.

If it sounds far fetched, think of this.

It might be a little far fetched to say that a lime green handbag can sustain your optimism for the entirety of your trip, but it's certainly a striking piece of fashion.

Once items have all been fetched, walk children to a hide out spot where a "witch" (a costumed adult playing in character) thanks them for their generosity and gives each child a prize from her bag of goodies.

While it may seem far fetched, it may be your only hope.

This term "technology" may sound loaded where footwear is considered, but it is not that far fetched when you consider what goes into the design of a humble cleat.

A little later Tyre received as its king Merbaal (555-552) who had been fetched from Babylonia.

The great names at this period were those of Isaac Barrow (1630-1677); Robert South (1634-1716), celebrated for his wit in the pulpit; John Tillotson (1630-1694), the copyright of whose sermons fetched the enormous sum of 2500 guineas after his death, and of whom it was said that he was "not only the best preacher of the age, but seemed to have brought preaching to perfection"; and Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), styled, for his appearance in the pulpit, "the beauty of holiness."

But when convocation met in 1377 the bishops refused to proceed to business without Wykeham, and he was fetched back from Waverley Abbey.

But every brand forged by the smith broke under Sigurd's stroke; till at last he fetched the fragments of the sword Gram, Odin's gift to his father, which Hiortis had carefully treasured.

On about September 12 he sent for Jodl, who fetched a map which they spread out on the white bedspread.

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I know it probably sounds a little far fetched.

But instead of that, at the next village the sentinels of Davout's infantry corps detained him as the pickets of the vanguard had done, and an adjutant of the corps commander, who was fetched, conducted him into the village to Marshal Davout.

The doctor, who was fetched that same night, bled him and said that the prince had had a seizure paralyzing his right side.

Natasha, who had long expected to be fetched to nurse her baby, now heard the nurse calling her and went to the nursery.

Casaubon, who Latinized its name " Dei ingenium (Ephemerides, 19th September 1611), was told by the " ornithotrophaeus " he visited at Wisbech that in London it fetched twenty pence.

As long ago as 1826 twenty-seven hunters and hacks were sold for 7500 guineas, an average of over £290; and when Lord Stamford ceased to hunt the Quorn in 1853, seventythree of his horses fetched at auction an average of close on £ 200.