grub up
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“Nobody ain’t got no time tuh hold yo’ grub up in front uh yo’ face,” she told Coodemay.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Taylor held the pale, wriggling grub up to Adina’s face.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Afterward by degrees you grub up the stumps and get the clean, tilled land.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
A gang of three men proceeded systematically to grub up the plants and collect the multitudes of water-snails that they might be examined by the expert to see if any obnoxious species were present.
From The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
He allows no strange dogs to prowl about the place, and grub up his buried bones.
From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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