gamp

Example Sentences

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In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus

You kicked yourself because you hadn't taken your mother's advice and brought a gamp.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

A man in a slouch hat, carrying a gamp as untidy as himself, was walking before them down the middle of the road.

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

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.

"Mark me, I'll find him, and when I do—" The sweep of her bulky gamp nearly knocked Bonypart off his platform.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward