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Send for   /sɛnd fɔr/   Listen
verb
Send  v. i.  (past & past part. sent; pres. part. sending)  
1.
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. "See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?"
2.
(Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.






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... together with the 'First Principles of Religion,' and the 'Adventures of a Pincushion.' All these mighty volumes she took with her to Smiledale, and Mr. Placid was so much pleased with them as to send for an additional supply to present to his friends. As to the skates, he had desired her not to think about them, as he should by no means approve of her brothers using them; nor would they have occasion for a coach-whip, but ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas

... one, because he was not smothered. Here! woman, who are you? The housemaid. I thought so. I always know a housemaid. You shall take care of my page. Take him at once, and give him some milk and water; and, page, be very good, and never leave this good young woman, unless I send for you. And, woman, good young woman, perhaps you may find an old feather of Miss Temple's page. Give it to this good little boy, ...
— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli

... "My wife agreed to send for one on Sixth Avenue," said the stranger. "I didn't wait for him to come, but set out for ...
— The Errand Boy • Horatio Alger

... out about this Louise Loisson. Maybe then you'll hear something, somewhere, that'll give you track of our Miss Lady. Start to New Orleans at once—I'm going down home, to watch that end of the line. We're going after those levee-cutters. As I said, we may want you, and if I send for you, get to my place as fast as you can. Never mind how you get there, but come. And man! if we could only get ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough

... of Nationalist insinuation and Ministerial denial in regard to Irish happenings was lightened by one or two interludes. Mr. JACK JONES loudly suggested that the Government should send for General LUDENDORFF to show them how to carry out reprisals. "He is no friend of mine," retorted the CHIEF SECRETARY, with subtle emphasis. Later he read a long letter from the C.-in-C. of the Irish Republican Army to his Chief of Staff discussing the possibility ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 • Various


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