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going up to town every day
"I'm sure you don't get half enough enjoyment out of life now, going up to town every day," and Billy had finally given way, on those grounds, never suspecting that at the back of her mind was always the fear of his being drawn into speculation and coming to grief.
— from People of Position by Stanley Portal Hyatt

go up thar trail em down
We’ll go up thar, trail ’em down an’ make ’em laff if they kin, a-settin’ among the live coals.’
— from The Eyes of the Woods: A Story of the Ancient Wilderness by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

goes up to town every day
He has had his holiday, so that he goes up to town every day; it does not sound very friendly to say that this arrangement exactly suits me, but so it is.
— from The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson

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