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Go on

verb

Continue a certain state, condition, or activity. Synonyms: continue, go along, keep, proceed. "We continued to work into the night" , "Keep smiling" , "We went on working until well past midnight"

Come to pass. Synonyms: come about, fall out, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place. "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense. Synonyms: advance, march on, move on, pass on, progress.

Continue talking. Synonyms: carry on, continue, proceed. "But there is no choice" , "Carry on--pretend we are not in the room"

Start running, functioning, or operating. Synonyms: come on, come up. "The computer came up"

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"Go on" Quotes from Famous Books

... here and there with vegetation, and he doubted not that after a few hours' ride he should be fairly in the confines of cultivated country. He gave his camel a meal of dates, and having eaten some himself, again set the creature in motion. These camels, especially those of good breed, will go on for three or four days with scarcely a halt; and there was no fear of that on which he rode breaking down from fatigue, for the journeys hitherto had been ...

— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty

... shall be out on Friday evening. We have discussed Maynooth to-day. An intermediate letter which Sir James Graham has to write to Ireland for information causes thus much of delay. I have told them that if I go, I shall go on the ground of what is required by my personal character, and not because my mind is made up that the course which they propose can be avoided, far less because I consider myself bound to resist it. I had the process of this declaration to repeat. ...

— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley

... can't quit this minin' business. I've just got to go on so long's I've got health an' strength; an' I'm a-goin' to shove all I've got once more into the muck. I stand to make a big ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... your absurdities, sir," said the Cardinal; "you will make me as ridiculous as yourself, if you go on so; I am too powerful to need the assistance of Heaven. Do not let that happen again. Occupy yourself only with the people I consign to you. I traced your part before. When the master of the horse is taken, you will see him tried and executed at Lyons. I will not be known in this. ...

— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny

... illness, and to pass the time began to write a short story. The title was "How They Missed the Exposition"; when it was sent away, and a check for seventy-five dollars came in payment, she was encouraged to go on. Her next work was the series of stories entitled Emmy Lou, Her Book and Heart. This at once took rank as one of the classics of school-room literature. It had a wide popularity in this country, and was translated into French and German. One of the pleasant tributes paid to the ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

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