how goes it
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"So, how goes it? Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed by the schoolwork?"
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
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“And how goes it with young Besa?” her mother asked quietly.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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"Well, George, how goes it?" asked the foremost soldier of the age.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various
"Ha, Gaunt, how goes it?" cried Percy, wringing his hand with effusion, proud that the passers-by should see him on such terms with Gaunt of Omberleigh.
From The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
"Good day, how goes it, papa?" said he, and kissed his father on the cheek, so that the old man kissed in the air, like a carp, when he comes up out of the water.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
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