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give up your expensive dresses
What if you did have to give up your expensive dresses, your fine house, your automobiles?
— from The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer

grows upon you every day
It is a place that ‘grows upon you’ every day.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

grow upon you every day
And yet they grow upon you every day, } While you, to speak the best, are at a stay, } For sects, that are extremes, abhor a middle way: } } Like tricks of state, to stop a raging flood, } Or mollify a mad-brained senate's mood; } Of all expedients never one was good.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden

go up yonder every day
And they call to their brothers below, "Come and see; it looks as if our companions who go up yonder every day are making signs to us.
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage

grow upon you every day
And yet they grow upon you every day, While you, to speak the best, are at a stay, 270 For sects, that are extremes, abhor a middle way.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden


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