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the under nurse go up
Hannah," to the under nurse, "go up and remain with him.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

The uncle now got up
The uncle now got up and went into the hut, returning soon with a table and their dinner.
— from Heidi (Gift Edition) by Johanna Spyri

the Upper Nile go up
Denon describes and figures a very primitive float of this sort, consisting of a bundle of straw or stalks, pointed and turned up in front, and says that the inhabitants of the Upper Nile go up and down the river upon it astride, the legs serving for oars; they use also a short double-bladed paddle.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

to us nor given us
Ideala has never mentioned his name since she returned to us, nor given us any other clue by which we could judge.
— from Ideala by Sarah Grand

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