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

But the exploring spirit of the race is not what it used to be, and we simply ran Gadabout into a slip beside the disused canal and stopped.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

Stepping aboard Gadabout, we congratulated ourselves that she enabled us to live indefinitely right in the suburbs of old James Towne.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

Prateapace, Gadabout, and Brazenstare—there are characters enough for episodes; and a hero—but what, you will say, are we to do for a heroine?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

Gadabout sidled to starboard, and grapnels were thrown up into the trees to hold her alongshore.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.