gamp

Example Sentences

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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

"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

Some English "fellah" Has left his rotten gamp, and carried off My own Umbrella!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 by Various

It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

"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