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get a visual image of the apple
It is easy to see that we may (1) get a visual image of the apple tree and its fruit from a current over the gustatory-visual association fibers; (2) the thoughts, emotions, or deliberations which we had on the former occasion may again recur to us from a current over the gustatory-thought neurones; (3) we may get an image of our movements in climbing the fence and picking the apple from a current over the gustatory-motor fibers; or (4) we may get an auditory image of the barking of the dog from a current over the gustatory-auditory fibers.
— from The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts

get a verdict if obliged to appeal
above that of all his neighbours—who must have right on his side bright as a cloudless sun to get a verdict, if obliged to appeal to the laws—who pays fifty per cent.
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

get a verdict if obliged to appeal
above that of all his neighbors—who must have right on his side bright as a cloudless sun to get a verdict, if obliged to appeal to the laws—who pays fifty per cent.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

give a verdict in opposition to arguments
It seemed to be almost impossible that any jury should give a verdict in opposition to arguments so convincing as those Sir John had used.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

give a vivid idea of the adventures
The writer, in this narrative, has simply attempted to give a vivid idea of the adventures of Cortez and his companions in the Conquest of Mexico.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott


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