gamp

Example Sentences

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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.

She went off, still flourishing her sturdy gamp, and reiterating her determination to have the law on the infamous Missing Link.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward

Ah! take and hide me in some hollow lair, Red hills of Var! and ye umbrella-pines, Cover me like a gamp!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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