1057 examples of get at in sentences
"Thank Heaven, I can get at the banjo at last" (Plays and is encored a dozen times.)
Morse could not go and leave West where he could get at the man who had put him in prison and with a dog-train to carry him north.
we're up against something that's going to take it out of us before we get at the truth.
In a pompous manifesto he had given out that retreating days were over, that his headquarters were to be in the saddle, and, that, as he swept on to Richmond, where he evidently expected to arrive in the course of a few days, his difficulty was going to be not to whip his enemy but to get at him in order to do so.
render true, prove true &c adj.; substantiate &c (evidence) 467. get at the truth &c (discover) 480.1.
Now I have said that the delay chafed us, because we were impatient to get at the treasure; but there was something else that vexed me and made me more unquiet with every day that passed.
They'll get at ye now, sure!"
Evidently there was something he wanted to say, yet found it difficult to "get at.
Having been hazed, and having been taxed, this boy who was known as "Fatty" Warner, was entitled to banquet with the Crows; but he had been invited out to a bigger supper than he could get at the "Slaughter-house," and so he did not receive his note, and escaped the fate of the Crows who had been put in cold storage in the gymnasium.
The detail gone into, in the verses quoted, is manifestly to enable them to get at the motive and find out whether the master designed to kill.
"You get at people's hearts much better than ever I could do.
"Well, let's get at it," said he.
But though we could perceive almost close to us several lamps burning in comfortable-looking huts, and could plainly distinguish the voices of their occupants, and though we exerted all our strength to get at them, we were foiled in every attempt, by reason of the sloughs and fens, and we were at last obliged to abandon them in despair.
I'm going to tie my money up so that he can't get at it.
I felt him pull at something that clung to my coat-sleeve, and then I saw he held a little, wriggling red demon by the tailthe little creature bit and fought and tried to get at his handand in a moment he tossed it carelessly behind a counter.
But the Indians were now on comparatively open ground, where the regulars could see them and get at them; and under St. Clair's own leadership the troops rushed fiercely at the savages, with fixed bayonets, and drove them back to cover.
I do not mean to spy on you, far from it; but consider, Mrs. Close, if I should be able to get at the bottom of this thing, find out the real cause of your misfortune, perhaps show that you are the victim of a cruel wrong rather than of carelessness, would you not be willing to let me go ahead?
We shall thus get at a better understanding and better appreciation of their character and their results.
"But how did you get at it?"
Such aid as the Blair Bill proposed would meet a certain need, and enable the men that are educated by the A.M.A. to get at the masses; but the peculiar work of preparing honest and devout Christian leaders must be otherwise provided for.
I want to know what I am to do, and, whatever I am to do, I want to get at it.
"You can't get at him to crucify him.
One day when he could not get at the books, and his mood was more than usually fretful, and his mother seemed at her lowest, she suddenly turned on him and said in a strangely bitter tone: "All I have to go through now is your fault, Keith.
And if he had not discovered it, how could he, Jennings, get at the drawers to examine them?
His fingers itched to get at Strang's thick bull-like throat.