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								But suddenly Marling's accent lurches across the pond, and the track gets a gee-up into a country and western hoedown. 
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								Although not as funny as when Philip Pullman invariably tries to gee-up publicity for the movie adaptation of his book The Golden Compass in December by aping JK Rowling and deliberately dropping his trousers in front of a roomful of crying schoolkids and shouting "Who wants a double serving of my hot plum sauce?" to the sky like some sort of deranged lunatic. 
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								However, it's not all good news – by hyping In Rainbows around a marketing gimmick like they have, and without the album being in stores to gee-up impulse buys, there's a good chance that hardly anyone will buy Radiohead's album after, say, next week. 
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								Even more fantastic is the etymological origin of Andaluzia, for the poor countryman of this story, when addressed by the conquering Moor, merely remarked surlily to his ass, "gee-up Luzia!" or, in his own tongue, "Ando Luzia!" which was taken by the Moor in remarkable good faith, and has ever after been the name of that province. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery 
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								"Gee-up -- gee-up, little mare, laying still will never do, I'll make your arse ride him properly," as snatching up a band off a truss of straw which lay handy, I rope'sended her buttocks to perfection. 
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								I can tell you, too, the cart-horse kind that has to be driven with a whip and a "gee-up" all the time wouldn't be the type for me. ' 
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								As that gentleman happened at the moment to be staring me squarely in the face as I stood by the roadside it was not altogether clear whether he was addressing me or his beasts; nor could I say if they were named Fuddy and Duddy and were both sub - jects of the imperative mood 'to gee-up.' Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909 
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								The wheels crunched a loose stone in the road, and the driver drawled a, patient "gee-up" to the horses, as he flicked at The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909 
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								Gee-up, gee-up, crack your whip, Houpet, and make them gallop as fast as you can. 
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								As that gentleman happened at the moment to be staring me squarely in the face as I stood by the roadside it was not altogether clear whether he was addressing me or his beasts; nor could I say if they were named Fuddy and Duddy and were both subjects of the imperative mood 'to gee-up.' Can Such Things Be 1893 
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