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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple past form of
get .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But they would not listen to his words and took my brother, dragging him along on his face, and set him before the Governor who asked him, “Whence gottest thou these stuffs and monies?”
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We asked, “And how gottest thou her?” and he answered, “I had a rare adventure with her.”
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Then asked Abu Kir, “Whence gottest thou this high degree?”
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Abdullah, “O man (Allah bless thee in all He hath bestowed on thee!), no harm shall befal thee; but tell me truly, whence gottest thou these jewels; for I am a King yet have I not the like of them.”
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Said she, Thou art as witty as any lady in the land; I wonder where thou gottest it.
Pamela 2006
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Smartly said! says he: Where a d — — l gottest thou, at these years, all this knowledge?
Pamela 2006
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“Well, for my part,” said Lady Davers, “thou art a strange girl: where, as my brother once said, gottest thou all this?”
Pamela 2006
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Pretty-face, where gottest thou all thy knowledge, and thy good notions, at these years?
Pamela 2006
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Bird, singing at the peep of morn, where gottest thou thy song?
Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916
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"Tell me, honest pilgrim, where thou gottest this ring?" she asked him.
Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880
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