gamp

Example Sentences

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Ach! it vos so pad I haf to get oudt right avay, und come pack to der gamp.

From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan

One girl screamed, but the heroine from the old-established lodging-house boldly entered the cage, swinging her gamp.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward

Look here, how did you manage to get my gamp up yonder?”

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

Molly had put on her shabbiest hat and oldest jacket; her gloves had some holes in them; her umbrella was rolled up in such a thick, ungainly fashion that it looked like a gamp.

From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.

It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)