gamp

Example Sentences

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"You don't think I'd do a thing like that on purpose!" he said, and saw for the first time that the man with the gamp was Joses.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred

Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.

From In a German Pension by Mansfield, Katherine

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.

The man with the gamp shuffled toward him.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred

Under the Old Umbrella, Beneath the leaking gamp, Wrapped up in woolly phrases We battle with the damp.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir