Is it likely I should make myself cross about a basketful of rubbishing toadstools that you've wasted your time in fetching out of the woods?
He waited and waited till it was perfectly plain that the man could not be coming from fetching water, and, startled at this, he shouted, and then hurriedly looked about in the various buildings, but only to find them empty.
Taking the vessel from her head, she uncovered it; and fetching sweet-scented water in a golden vase, she approached the Bodisat, and stood by.
She discovered the necessary servants by breakfasting in bed one morning (still at the hotel), and giving her maid a holiday on condition that the girl "would begin enjoying herself by fetching Miss Clack.
Large pieces of wood and mutti were hurled all around my sandbags, one piece fetchingme a clout on the helmet and denting in my megaphone.
No good one going in and fetching the doctor out, it's waste of time, and then he mightn't be able to do anything.
Fetching a compass of two or three miles, she once more fell into the high road between Belford and Berwick, where she walked her horse gently on, awaiting the coming up of the postman.
She rose, and fetching her neat little leather writing-case from where she had placed it on the top of her bureau, prepared to open it.
I'm after spending the morning since ten o'clock making inquiries here and there, and devil the one there is in the parish sick enough to be fetching the doctor out in the middle of the night.
When it was a question of fetching water from the stream that flowed through the rocky bottom below, it was two of the Anatolians who were told off to the job by the Kurdish sergeant, and went sulkily to obey.
With the ostensible purpose of fetching provisions, Kopri was arranging to take a large number of mules to Trebizond, to await his return from Constantinople.
He was clever in fetching what was wanted from distant parts of the house, but was very much afraid of being by himself in the dark.
He was in the habit of fetching his master's clothes, and of returning them to their proper places; and he knew their names.
They're fetching up a keel boat to the shore, Miss Betty--it's a whooper!
In a manner it were mine, but the ark got on a sandbank as we were fetching it in and it took us the whole damn night to get clear.
So deuced hard to remember that anything so delicate and sweet and fetching could be Billings' sister, you know.
Already eggs arefetching four times as much as they did last week.
Fetching a pillow, he stretched out in true oriental style.
Fetching a large cloth, she set to work with easy dexterity.
However good the contents provided, the Oxford man prefers to look upon the fetching features--and limbs, of footlight favourites in papers provided free of charge in the Junior Common Room.
The following day the ice was still so much disturbed that we had to think seriously of fetching back the things which still lay there.
Not until September 23d did the state of the ice permit us to carry out our intention of fetching back the things from the great hummock.
A man is considered mean if he does not pay the car-fare of his girl companion; a girl will allow a man who is merely a "friend" to take her to the theatre, fetching her and taking her home in a carriage hired at exorbitant rates.
It is easy to drink our champagne from tin cans, when we know that it is merely a sense of hurry that prevents us fetching the chased silver goblets waiting for our use.
They could see him moving about, by means of the little glow cast by the hand electric torch he had borrowed from Lil Artha; who felt that his fetching such a useful article along had vindicated his wisdom.
But we four men set to in earnest, digging with all our might and main, shovelling away at the great white pile, and fetching it into the meadow.
And to my mind it was not clear whether it would be fair-play at all to follow a visitor even at a distance from home and clear of our premises; except for the purpose of fetching him back, and giving him more to go on with.
And with her oats he mixed some powder, fetching it from his saddle-bags.
For he begged her to see to his young grand-daughter, until he could find opportunity of fetching her safely to Dulverton.
About sundown the small boat returned, fetching the pirate Captain of the brigantine back again.
At that instant the negro man came into the room, fetching the bottle of rum and the bread and cheese he had been sent for.
He called aloud, and in reply a fat, one-eyed woman came, fetching him something to drink in a cup.
When anyone expostulated with him about cooking his own breakfast and fetching his own water, he replied that it was good for him to have a change of occupation.
There was no water laid on in his rooms, and every day he fetched one can full from the tap in the court, Alfred fetching the rest.
It was going to be a ticklish job, fetching the passage from where she lay in those fluky airs.
