1768. Goldsmith, Good Natured Man, Act iii. Men that would go forty
guineas on a game of cribbage.
1876. Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, Prologue ii. The very dice
on the counter with which the bar-keeper used to go the miners for
drinks.
1877. S. L. Clemens (M. Twain), Life on the Mississippi, ch.
xliii., p. 390. There’s one thing in this world which a person
won’t take in pine if he can go walnut; and won’t take in walnut if
he can go mahogany.... That’s a coffin.
c. 1882. Comic Song, ‘The West End Boys,’ verse 3. Another bitter I
really can’t go.
1887. World, 20 Apr., p. 8. While making up his mind, apparently
whether he would go ‘three’ or ‘Nap.’