What is "getting over"

Usage examples of "getting over".

He called himself for the plaintiff, there was no getting over his evidence, the counsel for the defendant threw up his brief, and the jury did not even turn to consider.

Leapfrog is one of his methods of getting over the ground quickly.

Dorothea dared not insist, and she read for an hour or more on the same plan as she had done in the evening, but getting over the pages with more quickness.

He had believed throughout that it was a mere question of getting over an unpleasant matter as quickly as possible, and he ran desperately, as if pursued for a murder.

That didn't sit too well with me, the fat cats getting over and all.

Kennedy was getting over his nervousness and falling into his wandering meditations again, when a sharp whistle pierced his ear.

As Adam was getting over a stile at this point in his reflections, he perceived a man walking along the field before him.

They walked on across the fields and down the shady lanes, sometimes getting over a fragment of a fence so rotten that it dropped at a touch of the foot, sometimes passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with grass, marking the site of deserted works.

Matsakis (1992) and Allen (1995) provide self-help for getting over a trauma.

There would be no difficulty in getting over the first thousand miles, the distance between Moscow and the Russian frontier.

He seemed to be getting over his surprise, and trying to decide whether to be angry.

She went more slowly than she came, often getting over the stiles and sitting for hours under the hedgerows, looking before her with blank, beautiful eyes.

Dolly stuttered badly, but was gradually getting over it, for no one was allowed to mock him and Mr.