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Fetches and wraiths of the chosen of the Norns, and the sun from the lift Shudders, and over the midgarth and swan’s bath the cloud-shadows drift.”

From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew

Fetches and wraiths ... fetches and wraiths ... fetches and wraiths ...

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

Hard to get by as a lawyer-plant, Tackles his man like a bull-dog ant— Fetches him over too!

From Saltbush Bill, J. P. by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

At the door Jim Slocum tapped him on the shoulder: "Fetches the wimmin folk every time, don't he, Doctor?" said Jim.

From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Harte, Bret

From the corn-loft brings the peasant His old-fashioned rusty musket, Which below the floor was hidden; Fetches also the long halberd.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von