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Definition of Fetches
1. fetch [v] - See also: fetch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetches
Literary usage of Fetches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and the novels, "John Doe", "The fetches", "Peter of the Castle", "The Mayor
of Windgap", and "The Boyne Water", the last a political novel. ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Excuses, tricks, artifices. (Saxon.) " Dmj to »pert with me ? They »re lick t
they They bare travelled «11 the night т Mere fetches. ..."
3. Later Stuart Tracts by George Atherton Aitken (1903)
"... this as a pledge of his sincerity: if you won't stop proceeding, to hear him,
I will! CHAPTER VII. The rest of NICHOLAS'S fetches to keep JOHN out of ..."
4. Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect by Hezekiah Niles (1822)
"... which fetches »пД carries for »ny minister who pleases to employ it.
Englishmen have been wont to boast of the excellence of their constitution; ..."
5. Journal [Aug. 1, 1832 to July 17, 1833] by Fanny Kemble (1835)
"of their power of volition by this motion, rushing hither and thither in all
directions but the one they purpose going, and making as many angles, fetches, ..."
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