Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian,; or cf. facian, to wish to get, OFries. faka, to prepare. √77. Cf. Fet (v. t.)
In literature:
If you must know, I've come over to fetch some paper for my uncle.
"The Lost Middy" by George Manville Fenn
HOW MAX FETCHED HELP.
"Three Boys" by George Manville Fenn
They were just finishing coffee when the orderly arrived to fetch the two gentlemen.
"The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8)" by Guy de Maupassant
There, let's go into the parlour, light up, and then you shall fetch down the microscope.
"The Ocean Cat's Paw" by George Manville Fenn
If he went off to fetch the ladder from the stable-yard, the boy would slide down the top of the vinery and escape.
"Quicksilver" by George Manville Fenn
Come, get up, or the skipper will send down two fellows to fetch you out.
"Sail Ho!" by George Manville Fenn
I was at a military school, and I didn't want to be fetched away.
"!Tention" by George Manville Fenn
When Dr. Gibbs fetch his wife to Charleston, he bought my ma from his wife's pa, and she fetch me along too.
"Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2" by Works Projects Administration
Go and fetch some water and throw on it, that there may be plenty of smoke.
"The Little Savage" by Captain Frederick Marryat
So another camel was sent down to fetch those necessaries.
"Southern Arabia" by Theodore Bent
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In poetry:
Said Dollinger, the pilot man,
As on the vessel flew,
"Fear not, but trust in Dollinger,
And he will fetch you through."
"The Aged Pilot Man" by Mark Twain
Then he calld on his little foot-page,
And said--"Run speedilie,
And fetch my ain dear sister's son,
Sir Hugh Montgomery.
"Battle Of Otterbourne" by Anonymous British
Then he call'd on his little foot-page,
And said, Run speedilie,
And fetch my ain dear sister's son,
Sir Hugh Montgomery.
"The Battle Of Otterburn" by Anonymous British
Said Dollinger the pilot man,
In noble words, but few,—
"Fear not, but lean on Dollinger,
And he will fetch you through."
"The Aged Pilot Man" by Mark Twain
Not that hell knows redeeming,
But for souls sunk in seeming
Fresh, till doomfire burn all,
Prayer shall fetch pity eternal.
"The Loss Of The Eurydice" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Gae, fetch a web o' the silken claith,
Another o' the twine,
And wap them into our ship's side,
And let na the sea come in."
"Sir Patrick Spens" by Anonymous British
In news:
He would love to become the mayor, but in his haste to do this, he hurt himself by going along with the Queen Bee 's far-fetched ideas.
South Korea's KT Corp is considering bidding for Vivendi's 53 percent stake in Maroc Telecom, which the seller hopes will fetch 5.5 billion euros ($7.15 billion), two people familiar with the situation said.
Thanks to Twitter, she got all three — even though one was far-fetched.
Ruby isn't one of those dogs that can just roll over or fetch — this four-legged doctor can actually detect when his owner's blood sugar is too high or too low.
The Rose DeWitt Bukater 'jump dress', created by Deborah L Scott, is expected to fetch between $200,000 (£125,000) and $300,000 (£187,500).
Madonna bra fetches $52,000 at Christie's auction.
They Fetch, They Roll Over, They Aid Tumor Research.
Big bid for ' Calvin and Hobbes': Original Watterson artwork fetches $200,000.
' Calvin and Hobbes' art fetches record $203K in auction.
A cameraman shoots the artist Matta's piece entitled Nada which is expected to fetch between $1.5 to $2 million during Sotheby's Latin American Art auction in New York.
Fetch an education at canine college.
BALTIMORE – The horse fetched such a modest price, going for $35,000 at a Florida sale last year, that concerned owner J.
' Casablanca ' piano expected to fetch $1M at auction.
The auction house estimates it could fetch up to $1.2 million.
Rare note might fetch $300,000.
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In science:
This way, a shallow copy of complex objects is sufficient given that it internally uses this kind of fat references, so that other referred objects can be fetched from the appropriate place on demand.
Extending and Implementing the Self-adaptive Virtual Processor for Distributed Memory Architectures
The Results List object is a container for formal results of the job. Its children may be any objects resulting from the computation that may be fetched from the service when the job has completed.
IVOA Recommendation: Universal Worker Service Pattern Version 1.0
In (1), λrepresents the Social Network manager and πrepresents the Web manager. The Social Network Manager λ is responsible for establishing connection to the social networks and fetching the information from it. Similarly the Web Manager π is responsible for locating content from World Wide Web.
We.I.Pe: Web Identification of People using e-mail ID
Output : Fetched information corresponding to the e-mail id.
We.I.Pe: Web Identification of People using e-mail ID
We assume that the client fetches/stores data on the server in atomic units, referred to as blocks, of size B bytes each.
Path O-RAM: An Extremely Simple Oblivious RAM Protocol
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