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greatest ancient would you not
if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest modern" instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor,–that
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

get along with you now
But get along with you now; I must go on with this.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Get along with your nonsense
Nastasya, my dear, won’t you have some beer?” “Get along with your nonsense!”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Go ahead with your New
Miss Anthony writes for advice to Phillips, who replies: "Go ahead with your New York plan as sketched to me.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

George and when you never
"That was when you never ought to have asked for the security, George, and when you never ought to have got it, all things considered.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

good advice will you now
Sir, I knew you in other days when you were happy; then you gave me good advice, will you now permit me—” The old man folded his arms in an attitude of attention.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

go away with you now
"No; it is not the sort of thing one generally tells one's father, but—I cannot go away with you now—" "When will you come?"
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

get along wid your nonsense
So I took 'em wid incredible condescension; and dat ar beautiful lady says to me, 'Oh, get along wid your nonsense about coloured skins!
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

Get along with you now
Get along with you now, as Robbie and I have got to fix up our routes.”
— from Baseball Joe, Home Run King; or, The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record by Lester Chadwick

grand a way You never
Armies and emperors and kings, All carrying different kinds of things, And marching in so grand a way, You never saw the like by day.
— from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Get awa wi your nonsense
'I'm sure he likes us both equally, Milly; he talked a great deal to you at Elverston, and used to ask you so often to sing those two pretty Lancashire ballads,' I said; 'but you know when you were at your controversies and religious exercises in the window, with that pillar of the church, the Rev. Spriggs Biddlepen—' 'Get awa' wi' your nonsense, Maud; how could I help answering when he dodged me up and down my Testament and catechism?—an I 'most hate him, I tell you, and Cousin Knollys, you're such fools, I do.
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

gifts and will you not
Is not God the Lord of his own gifts; and will you not allow him the privilege of having some more peculiar objects of his love and pleasure, which you allow without blame to man, and use yourself without any sense of a crime?
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

get acquainted with your namesake
Come and get acquainted with your namesake.
— from The Bachelors: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt


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