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got up looked at Garrity shook
He got up, looked at Garrity, shook his head sadly, and went out.
— from Garrity's Annuities by David Mason

get up like and get settled
so then, after all, you'll have a chance to see your childer get up like, and get settled." —Quoted By De Quincey.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

get up like and get settled
"God bless me!" said the climacterical man; "so then, after all, you'll have a chance to see your childer get up like, and get settled!
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

gushing up like a great spring
“When a ten-foot square opening had been made back on the arch, the current could be seen gushing up like a great spring from below, showing that there was a large body of it being held down there by the weight of the debris.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson


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