Goes
[ɡəʊz]
Examples
- Let her footstep, as she comes and goes, in these pages, be like that other footstep to whose airy fall your own heart once beat time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr Rokesmith goes with us? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If you have got the value of the stone in your pocket, answered Mr. Franklin, say so, Betteredge, and in it goes! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There it goes, and there is an end, thank Heaven! Jane Austen. Emma.
- I have got them still--the watch goes beautifully. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Goes through the archvay, thinking how he should inwest the money--up comes the touter, touches his hat--“Licence, Sir, licence? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Falsehoods and illusions ascend to take their place; the prodigal goes back into the country of the Lotophagi or drones, and openly dwells there. Plato. The Republic.
- Oh, as far as cynicism goes, Andros might be a boulevardier soaked in absinthe. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And when Our Johnny gets his breathing again, I turns again, and we all goes on together. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And I think,' added Mr Inspector, in conclusion, 'that if all goes well with him, he's in a tolerable way of getting it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It seems more humble-- Rawdy goes, of course? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So long as you goes now, said he, folding his arms and shutting his eyes with an oath, you may do wot you like! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If the bridge goes bad. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So goes the wintry day outside the Dedlock mansion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hereafter the Huns, so far as that name goes in Europe, the Huns of Attila, disappeared out of history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Light or heavy whatever goes into the Shivering Sand is sucked down, and seen no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Notwithstanding the late hour, he turns over to the next page and goes on to write his deductions from this result as compared with those previously obtained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Suppose that some one rolls a ball to a child; he catches it and rolls it back, and the game goes on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There goes the hour by the clock! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was what was always being dinned into you and me at school; it's what goes down best. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I think he must die for want o' support, if he goes on in that way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It all goes for nothing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All goes well, my friend, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, I wish they were educated enough to tell a man a direction that goes some where--for we've been going around in a circle for an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And thus, through years and years, and lives and lives, everything goes on, constantly beginning over and over again, and nothing ever ends. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Some good and some bad goes, no doubt, to all callings. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She brings mischief wherever she goes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This causes a sound of very great power, which the trumpet collects and compresses, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It's going on, and I shall gather it up closer and closer as it goes on. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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