gamp

Example Sentences

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“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

One girl screamed, but the heroine from the old-established lodging-house boldly entered the cage, swinging her gamp.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward

The man with the gamp shuffled toward him.

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

Ac ni wnaeth y dysgedig Mr. Edward Llwyd o’r Musæum, gamp yn y byd yn y perwyl yma, er ei fod yn gydnabyddus â holl geinciau prifiaith Prydain. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

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