Literary notes about get (AI summary)
The word "get" functions as a remarkably flexible tool in literature, used to convey a range of actions and states. It can indicate acquisition, as when a character expects to receive money ([1]) or even retrieves a necessary object ([2], [3]). At times, it describes movement or a change in physical state: descending from a ladder ([4]), rising to start work ([5]), or preparing oneself physically or mentally ([6], [7]). It also appears in idiomatic expressions that signal transitions—whether in recovering health ([8], [9]), embarking on an endeavor ([10]), or highlighting colloquial speech that lends immediacy to dialogue ([11], [12]). Through such varied applications, "get" emerges as a multifaceted verb that enriches both character dialogue and narrative progression.
- But after all, I never expect to get the money.
— from The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) - I told him that if he could get me the address it would be worth another half-sovereign to him.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker - By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - You get down from that ladder and go out to the Long Walk and Miss Mary will meet you and bring you here.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - "When do you get up?" "Sometimes two, sometimes three.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Bounen , v. to get ready, to go, also to make ready, NED; bowneth , pr. s. , NED; bownd , pt. s. , prepared himself, got ready, S3.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - So I had to resign myself to my fate and get ready to escape.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Imagine that I have a bilious fever: I may get well; also, I may die; both are in the usual course of things.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov - Foolish fellow, he would say, you are not healing the sick man, but you are educating him; and he does not want to be made a doctor, but to get well.
— from Laws by Plato - When he was satisfied he said, "Now I will get to work."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - Not that we’ll get anything out of him he doesn’t want to tell.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - “It's after one, and you'll get the devil,” he objected, “and I don't know enough about horses to put one away in the pitch dark.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
