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

Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.

From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron

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

The man with the gamp shuffled toward him.

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

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

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus