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going out out goings out lay
N. expenditure, money going out; out goings, out lay; expenses, disbursement; prime cost &c. (price) 812; circulation; run upon a bank.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Greek or Old Gothic or Latin
A Sanskrit word, or a Greek, or Old Gothic, or Latin, is a living organism, a little articulate being.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

garment of our Goddess of Liberty
It was this shoddy in the garment of our Goddess of Liberty, which has occasioned the rent which those needles there"—pointing to some bayonets—"must mend.
— from The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

good of our going on like
"Well, indeed," said the girl, "what is the good of our going on like this?
— from Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead by Allen Raine

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