There are pressed tea towels monogrammed by a long-dead hand, and wooden clothes pegs with fetching, old-fashioned labels.
Her two sons fetched her old girlhood friend who had come to America with her from Russia to console the old woman.
Vivien's mother motioned for Becky to take more and fetched an old scarf, making a bundle of the plums.
Hoping to cheer the boy up, Tucker fetches an old hand-cranked projector from his car and shows Eddie the first horror movie he's ever seen, "Frankenstein".
Penelope fetched an old bow used by Odysseus and challenged her suitors to demonstrate their prowess with it.
The terrified parents left to fetch their older daughters from school.
So one evening in July, when her mother, Gratiana Eugene, asked her to go outside their Brooklyn apartment and fetch her older brother for dinner, she took a bottle of water and a packet of sunflower seeds to share with him.
Once we'd fetched the older two and got back again, all three were fractious and tired and all they wanted to do was shout, fight or watch cartoons on TV.
Women in 27 Bangladeshi villages, where drinking water is generally scooped from a river or canal, were taught to cover the urns they used for fetching water with an old sari folded in four.
With decades-old jeans fetching thousands of dollars at flea markets, denim developed a basic taxonomy: rigid, used, vintage and, by the late 90's, distressed or "new vintage".
After dining on Astor plates and monogrammed silver, guests would repair to the drawing room for coffee, where they could sit on Louis XV chairs festooned with floral chintz (lot 122, a set of four, estimated to fetch $12,000 to $18,000), amid old master drawings by Tiepolo and Boucher, and a Canaletto that once belonged to the Duc de Talleyrand (lot 143, $300,000 to $500,000).
