How To Use gamp In A Sentence
- Christophe Ena/Associated Press Rennes 'Fabien Lemoine, left, vied for the ball with Guingamp's Wilson Oruma, right, during their French Cup final soccer match at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, outside Paris, May 9. The Wall of Fame
- In his preface to the book he speaks of her as a fair representation, at the time it was published, of the hired attendant on the poor in sickness: but he might have added that the rich were no better off, for Mrs. Gamp's original was in reality a person hired by a most distinguished friend of his own, a lady, to take charge of an invalid very dear to her; and the common habit of this nurse in the sick room, among other Gampish peculiarities, was to rub her nose along the top of the tall fender. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
- Christophe Ena/Associated Press Guingamp players celebrated their victory against Rennes after their French Cup final soccer match at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, outside Paris, May 9. The Wall of Fame
- I egged her on, and we got her into the long coat, and adjusted the broad-brimmed bonnet and veil, and I jammed the shoes on her feet, and gloved her, and stuck the gamp in her hand -- and when she managed to stand, leaning against the table, she looked as much like the outward picture of a lady as made no odds. Flash For Freedom
- It mentions that holy sadhus in Borgampad carry ritualistic water vessels, called kamandals, made from a fruit resembling female butt-cheeks. The Fruit Hunters
- As at Begampur there is a complete absence of decoration or of any aesthetic consideration.
- Their delicate and exquisite prints, some of which use gampi paper as their base, sell for very reasonable prices, an opportunity that may not last.
- The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates. Isabelle
- To use a burning consciousness of one’s own misery, of the shackles that cut one’s own limbs, to quicken one’s sense of life in general, as Dickens did, to shape out of the murk which has surrounded one’s childhood some resplendent figure such as Micawber or Mrs. Gamp, is admirable: but to use personal suffering to rivet the reader’s sympathy and curiosity upon your private case is disastrous. The Common Reader, Second Series
- The moment, however, a step on the stair was heard, he snatched up hat and gamp, and in two-twos was outside the door of the flat. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
