gadabout
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Gadabout Manville explained he had paid his wife $200,000 to go off quietly to Reno and abandon her plans to nick him for $1,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gadabout did not take the trouble to run back into her creek harbour; but put down a heavier anchor and made herself comfortable for the night in the cove above the Brandon pier.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.
Our supplies aboard, Gadabout quickly carried us across the river and landed us at Shirley.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.
As Gadabout slowly moved along, she occasionally got out of the channel into the shallows, in spite of chart and sounding-pole; and more than once she struck bottom.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.
When sticks and straws and frost-tinted leaves, floating down past us toward the James, changed their minds and started back up the Kittewan, Gadabout went with them.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.
