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Get up right up
Get up, right up.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

get up ride upon
I pray you, my good lusty springal lads, if you find any of these females, that are worth the pains of untying the codpiece-point, get up, ride upon them, and bring them to me; for, if they happen within the third month to conceive, the child should be heir to the deceased, if, before he died, he had no other children, and the mother shall pass for an honest woman.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

grating unfriendly riotous unpeaceful
ANT: Incongruous, discordant, disproportioned, unshapely, harsh, unmelodious, sharp, grating, unfriendly, riotous, unpeaceful, quarrelsome.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

get up races used
On holidays Kostukov and the Juniors used to get up races, used to dash about Ukleevo and run over calves.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

grown up reflecting upon
For men, when they are grown up, reflecting upon their opinions and finding those of this sort to be as ancient in their minds as their very memories, not having observed their early insinuation, nor by what means they got them, they are apt to reverence them as sacred things, and not to suffer them to be profaned, touched, or questioned."
— from How We Think by John Dewey

gabuk Unsound religions ug
Tinuhúang gabuk, Unsound religions. — ug balatían readily persuaded.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

gave unto Robert Ufford
The plot or seat of this burhkenning, or watch-tower, King Edward III., in the year 1336, and the 10th of his reign, gave unto Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, by the name of his manor of Base court, in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, of London, commonly called the Barbican.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

grub up rake up
V. extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate|; unroot[obs3]; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

give up rattling up
But very often he thought: 'I must give up smoking, and coffee; I must give up rattling up to town.'
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

got up right under
But, if so, I can easily account for his mistaking a painted green bug for a real one; for, gentlemen, I am slightly near-sighted myself," said Pledget; "and last autumn, I do assure you, while I was out shooting on my brother's estate in Kent, a humble-bee got up right under my nose, and I actually blazed away at it with both barrels, mistaking it for a pheasant.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 410, December 1849 by Various

gorgeous uniform received us
The head porter, in gorgeous uniform, received us with the air of a proprietor; Arab bell boys in bright red silk gowns responded to the call of the manager and conducted us to our rooms; and Arab men in white gowns brought up our luggage.
— from A Trip to the Orient: The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob

German Union resolved upon
In June 1870 the Bundesrath of the North German Union resolved upon a reform and unification of the paper money, as preparatory to a complete currency reform, and in the same month the Chancellor of the North German Union had decided to call a Mint Convention.
— from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

going up right under
"So he will, Sir, and if Billy was going up right under the German guns it's my belief as Captain would get out of his trench to go and see him.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 by Various

goffee und rice und
Now gom und haf den breakfast, und den you shall gom indo mein shdore, und puy die mealies, und gorn, und dea, und goffee, und rice, und zhugars, und bay me den money, und we will load den wagon.
— from Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by George Manville Fenn

grounds unattended roads uncared
The visitor can, if he be so minded, betake himself to the outskirts and suburbs, where he will perceive the same sad evidences of neglect, public grounds unattended, roads uncared for, mills and other public works crumbling into ruin.
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard


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