agoing


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agoing

(əˈɡəʊɪŋ)
adj
in motion
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I'll plant them thick as grass, so that even a hungry rabbit can't squeeze between them; and when they get their roots agoing, nothing in creation will ever move that dirt again."
And I suppose the old missis is agoing to leave after this stir's gotten overed, and take herself off, somewhere, to live on her bit of a jointure; and the young 'un - at least the new 'un (she's none so very young) - is coming down to live at the Grove.'
But t' hear some o' them preachers, you'd think as a man must be doing nothing all's life but shutting's eyes and looking what's agoing on inside him.
'Why, a beak's a madgst'rate; and when you walk by a beak's order, it's not straight forerd, but always agoing up, and niver a coming down agin.
Folks as believe in Cliff's Holiday aren't agoing to ventur near it for a matter o' ten pound."
For other pieces, tables and sets of drawers, if you can't face agoing dark keep a consistent gothic feel with ornate detailing.
Is human intelligence and our attention spans agoing awry owing to our increased reliance on mobile devices?
Tom's most well, now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and ain't agoing to no more.