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  • Starting in with our quarry, I just kept a-going till I got them all.

    Chapter XVI 2010

  • Got the radio a-going good and tuned to a country show.

    Wounded Knee Jason W. Stuart 2011

  • And you-all adds up all your money and knows you ain't a-going to die if you can help it.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • "What d'ye mean, you yellow-faced heathen, lying here in a fairway without a horn a-going?"

    YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

  • What is your Muse about? will not this delightful season set you a-going again?

    Letter 237 2009

  • I believe no man in this country but himself could have kept the money machine a-going.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • I believe no man in this country but himself could have kept the money machine a-going.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • He then gave Camilla three guineas to deliver to them from himself, to set them a little a-going in an honest way, that they might not, he said, repent leaving off bad actions.

    Camilla 2008

  • BIG papers need to be finished, spring cleaning needs to continue and the family a-go-go is a-going on a weekend trip to the forest!

    Archive 2008-04-01 jek-a-go-go 2008

  • On the way said Arthur: Brethren, this meseemeth is but a-going on with the shows which were played us on the water as we came hither; but whether she doth this but for to mock and torment us, or that she would beguile us into deeming that our friends are verily here, I wot not; but tomorrow, meseemeth, I shall can to tell you.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

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