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give up the thing altogether to

My opinion is that it would be better to give up the thing altogether: to have no English examination, eh?"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

goes up the tree and the

Eventually the spirit goes up the tree, and the woman recovers.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

give up the tea and the

In fact, she wants me to advise you if possible to give up the tea and the very late hours.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

gentlemen under the trees at the

She was looking at everything, with an eye that denoted clear perception—at her companion, at the two dogs, at the two gentlemen under the trees, at the beautiful scene that surrounded her.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

given up trying to analyze the

But Anne had given up trying to analyze the reason of her blushes.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

gun upon the troops about the

The effect of this gun upon the troops about the gate of the city was so marked that General Worth saw it from his position.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

government unless the Treasury assists them

The members have made a strong representation to me that they really cannot any longer vote with government unless the Treasury assists them in satisfying their constituents.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

glass upon the table and then

My visitor, who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down the glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

go upon the Town as the

I had, as soon as the Rascal left me, so much Indignation and Resolution, as not to go upon the Town, as the Phrase is, but took to Work for my Living in an obscure Place, out of the Knowledge of all with whom I was before acquainted.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

get used to them and they

“They may bother you a little at first,” said Baird, “but you’ll get used to them, and they’re worth a little trouble because they’ll stand out.”
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

go up to the attic to

He had occasion to go up to the attic to fetch something which had been put away there.
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg

ground under the tree and then

Having loaded their caps, they descended and set them on the ground under the tree, and then returned to fill their stomachs.
— from The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William Makepeace Thayer

grave under the trees as they

When, at length, the boys returned, they reported that, for many reasons, there could not be a grave under the trees, as they would have liked.
— from The Settlers at Home by Harriet Martineau

good united to truth and truth

Furthermore, the Lord in them is love united to wisdom and wisdom united to love or (what is the same) is good united to truth and truth united to good (this union was treated of in the preceding chapter).
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

going upon their travels at the

And, with respect to Lord Clarendon's benefaction for the introduction of the bodily exercises, that institution may not of itself be found a sufficient inducement to prolong the stay of young gentlemen at the university beyond the usual time, or put an end to the custom of going upon their travels at the most unfit and dangerous season of life (which has proved the chief bane of our British youth), inasmuch as those exercises can also be acquired abroad; and, from caprice or fashion, perhaps, it will be thought too in a more perfect way.
— from A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) by Thomas Sheridan

gave up their time and talents

None of the Sisters who gave up their time and talents to the cause of suffering humanity did better work than the Sisters of Mercy.
— from Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War by George Barton

gave up trying to answer the

She gave up trying to answer the question and went smiling down to breakfast, and then across the road to face her unwelcome lover, strong in the courage that friendly counsel had given her.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

go up to the Abbey this

Now, you would not dare to go up to the Abbey this morning, and tell my honourable cousin that he ought to be ashamed of himself.—Eh!
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

grows upon that tree and the

Every Mohammedan prince, as a rule, follows the founder of his dynasty and creed, and thus, as the race of the Virgin Mother reproduces in every age the example of her whom all generations call blessed, and her Divine Son has planted in her the tree of chastity, of which He is Himself the first fruit, and which takes root in an honourable people, and as every work of superhuman charity grows upon that tree, and the sex lost in Eve is glorified by Mary, so the Mohammedan line is equally true to its origin.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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