Word: fetchingly
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...such, the story cannot fetch a complete response from modern, morticianed man. The circumstances lie outside his experience; it is not the reality, it is only the intensity of Antigone's emotions that can stir him. In Sophocles' version, the plot at least has the psychology of a superstitious age and a religious people behind it-although even this has not kept Sophocles' Antigone from sometimes being accounted a young woman with a decided martyr complex...
...bill in the U.S. Half-yen notes are used as nose-wipers. A group of men spent 35,000 yen on a night's spree at the seaside resort of Atami, taking care to bring their own slaughtered cow for food. Five pounds of black-market rice would fetch 5,000 to 7,000 yen (official price...
...outskirts of the city, we put down the litter and turn back to fetch Father Superior. Most of the ruins are by now burned out. One of us remarks that the pungent smell reminds him of burned corpses...
Governor Stevenson, who once promised the U.S. that Texas would make no separate peace, promptly informed the Shooting Bulls that as soon as the Army had the Far Eastern situation in hand, he would send the Texas Navy to fetch them home...
...Taif the chattering women piled out and into waiting automobiles. Riding past the nose of the plane, each & every one took a bold, veiled look at the Americans, who got a good look too. Then the C-47 went back to fetch the King. Ibn Saud, it was said, right royally enjoyed his first trip aloft...