cottoned

• I am to be flannelled and cottoned, and kept alive if possible; but if that cannot be done, I must be embalmed, with my face, mummy like, only bare, to converse through my cerements. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
• I've never "cottoned" well to others thinking they can speak for me, regardless, and I certainly wouldn't pick any of those mouth-breathing morons to do so. —  Bruins Nation
• Orange, though, has cottoned-on to the fact that it probably needs to do more to keep present customers in today's rapidly-deteriorating economic climate, so it's announced that the Orange Wednesday promotion will now extend to a two-for-one meal at Pizza Express, too. —  HEXUS.lifestyle : News
• XFX has already cottoned-on to this fact and released the —  HEXUS.net : News
• Even Republicans - at least the permanent Washington kind - never much cottoned to W's personal abstemiousness, so they have happily accepted the new president's invitations for cocktails while voting lockstep against him just as gladly. —  VF Daily

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