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grew up between us
Quite an angry correspondence grew up between us, which was published at the time in the newspapers, but it is not to be found in any book of which I have present knowledge, and therefore is given here, as illustrative of the events referred to, and of the feelings of the actors in the game of war at that particular crisis, together with certain other original letters of Generals Grant and Halleck, never hitherto published.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

good understanding between us
I had endeavoured to conceal as much as possible from Betsy my intercourse with Laura, but she was too quick not to have discovered that there existed a good understanding between us, though I still pretended that although we were sometimes in the habit of amusing ourselves together after her old fashion she had not yet granted me the last favour.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

go up bring up
su , his, her, its, their, your. subir to mount, climb, go up; bring up; increase.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

given us both unnecessary
You allowed the force of my objections, till your tenderness called up vague terrors, which have given us both unnecessary anguish.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Gebäude unoccupied building unbezahlbar
unbeschränkte Lieferung unrestricted supply unbeschränkter Kredit unlimited credit unbesetzt; leer vacant unbesetzte Zeit unoccupied time Unbesonnenheit indiscretion unbeständig unstable unbeständig unsteady Unbeständigkeit unsteadiness unbestätigt unconfirmed unbestätigtes Akkreditiv unconfirmed letter of credit unbestimmt vague unbewachter Bahnübergang unmanned crossing unbeweglich immovable unbeweglich machen; festlegen immobilize unbewegliche Güter; Immobilien immovables Unbeweglichkeit immobility Unbeweglichkeit des Industriestandorts industrial inertia unbewohntes Gebäude unoccupied building unbezahlbar priceless unbezahlbar unpayable unbezahlt unpaid unbezahlte Rechnung; Außenstände outstanding money unbezahlte Rechnungen outstanding accounts unbezahlte Werbung unpaid advertising unbezahlter Helfer unpaid helper unbezahlter
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

get up but unlike
Like his mates, he was barely able to get up, but, unlike them, he had made up his mind not to get up.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

going up before us
Then still further, another modification of this figure is found in the frequent representations of Scripture, by which our Lord is the Breaker, going up before us in the sense that He is the Captain of our life's march.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

grew up between us
At this time I had no relations with Torcy; it was not until long afterwards that friendship grew up between us.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 05 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

grown up between us
" (At no time have I ever given myself the trouble to pretend the slightest affection for her, and a certain coldness even has grown up between us, especially when we are alone.)
— from Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti

go ushered by unbonneted
In we go, ushered by unbonneted Celts, gentlemen in manners wherever the kilt is worn; for the tartan is the symbol of courtesy, and Mac a good password all the world over between man and man.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

grows up before us
The girl grows up before us from her early youth till her twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth year, and becomes,—such as her mother described her,—one whose headlong will, whose jealousy, and whose vanity nothing could restrain.
— from Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

grew up between us
She would have jumps, and she made me talk in a manner that quite surprised myself; and such a fine feeling grew up between us, that it was a happy thing for the whole of us, not to have Bunny in the way just then.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

growing up between us
Without a single sympathy in common—without a vestige of feeling of any sort, hostile or friendly, growing up between us on either side—without wishing each other good-night when we parted on the house stairs, or good-morning when we met at the shop counter, we lived alone in that house, strangers from first to last, for two whole years.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

get us both up
Mrs. Del. Madela had a feminine version of the jim-jams—tea-nerves, you know—so must get us both up.
— from Semiramis, and Other Plays by Olive Tilford Dargan


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