To carry on

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	To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design.
	To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade.
	to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner.

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With this added incentive I nearly drove Sola distracted by my importunities to hasten on my education and within a few more days I had mastered the Martian tongue sufficiently well to enable me to carry on a passable conversation and to fully understand practically all that I heard.

A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

This was to be the head factory of his company; whence they were to carry on their fishing and trapping operations, and their trade with the interior; and where they were to receive and dispatch their annual ship.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context

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to carry the ball
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