118 Verbs to Use for the Word goings

" Philip pushed back his chair, made his way deliberately round the head of the table, brushing aside several arms outstretched to prevent his going.

Within the next fortnight Willie discovered that as often as the stream ran through the garden, the little brook in which he had set his water-wheel going was nearly dry.

less dere wuz some kin' er dev'lishness goin' on dat don' show on de su'face.

I got to think more of other folks's comfort than I did afore, and whenever I got goin' to be dismal ag'in I used to try 'n' find somebody to help; it was a sure cure.

Then youyou won't mind my goin' off toto do a little prospectin'?" The sick man frowned: "You stay right where you are.

He followed the goings and comings of an ant or the capricious flight of a bumble-bee; then with his eyes lost in space, immersed in the profundity of nature, he dreamed....

We're all unarmed here, Mademoiselle Delorme, the skipper and I. We can't stop your going, if you insist, and we know too much to try.

xl. 2, "He hath established my goings.

I 'cla' 'fo' Gawd, ef a white man wuz to eat a flapjack, an' it did n' give him de belly-ache, I 'cla' 'fo' Gawd he'd git out a search-wa'nt to see ef some nigger had n' stole dat flapjack goin' down his th'oat." "Mr. Bobbs has to do his work, Mother," put in Peter.

I do not mean your going, Señor.

No use us goin' on with this darned foolishness.

Some of em run off and kept goin'.

No one watches his goings out and comings in; he has no sense of an eye for ever looking over the park wall.

But I never lost myself so but what I kinder heerd him goin' on, on, sort o' like,and it sounded all sort o' good; and so I thought of the Doctor to-day.

But no; I'll fly, and murder in retreat; Death, blood, and fire shall mark the going of my feet.

"Well, sir, I seed the Dutchmen's launch goin' down this arternoontravellin' proper they was too, same as when they swamped me.

Behold what too much woman has done for me!" "Ain't yew a-goin' ter shake hands?" inquired Abraham at last, wondering at the long silence and the incomprehensible stare, his fears accentuated by this seeming indication of a supreme and hopeless pity.

He had delayed his home-going; he should have been in Michigan shortly after Appomattox, and now he was afraid to face his vigorous wife and make an explanation.

To describe the goings on of the two young ladies with that baby is wholly out of the question.

could Nature have made that sloping lane, not to facilitate the down-going?

I reckin if I can git started right, I'll find lots more a-goin'.

"The words were true, my brother, but I knew not that your harshness would hasten my going.

An inexplicable instinct restrained him from taking de Chavasse's hand; he was quite glad indeed that the latter seemingly absorbed in thoughts was not heeding his going.

He would not go himself, would not accept a dinner invitation for any of the three busy nights of the week, and refused all those to dances and balls for himself, though he never hindered Rosamond's going.

"Fifty Island Water," announced Défago wearily, "and the sun jest goin' to dip his bald old head into it!"

118 Verbs to Use for the Word  goings