Citations:take up with

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English citations of take up with

  1. (to receive without opposition)
    • They have forgotten the right Inner True, and taken up with the Outer Sham-true.
      Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 2, The Sphinx
    • He thinks that we have at once missed realising it, and come to need it so pressingly, by departing far from the inner eternal Laws and taking up with the temporary outer semblances of Laws.
      Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 6, Hero-Worship