"Gam" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so far as in the town,— Looking through smoke and dust and tears to gam Some heavenly comfort for thy human pain, Heaven seems far off, but here the dews and ram Come like a benediction from the ...
— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean
... Hullfish, "I wouldn't 'a' taken no notice of it, ef it hadn't been for the money; but, thinks I, them students a'n't in the habit of sech costly jokes, and maybe there'll be some pinching to do, after all. So you mean to say it's a gam, do you, Doctor? May I be so bold as to inquire what yonder chap's holding on ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... wid the people! I'll tell you what, if takin' the pledge reforms Mechil Gam, the crooked disciple that he is, or Tom Whiskey, mind—mind me—I say if it reforms them, or young Barney Scaddhan, thin you may spake up for it, an' may be, I'll ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... don't tip this gam, [3] You knows as how it will not do; For you I milled flash Dustman Sam [4] Who made your peepers black and blue. [5] Vhy, then you swore you would be kind But you have queer'd so much of late, [6] And always changing like the wind, ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... odious Irishwoman who with her daughter used to frequent the "Royal Hotel" at Leamington some years ago, and who went by the name of Mrs. Major Gam. Gam had been a distinguished officer in His Majesty's service, whom nothing but death and his own amiable wife could overcome. The widow mourned her husband in the most becoming bombazeen she could muster, and had at least half an inch of lampblack round ...
— Men's Wives • William Makepeace Thackeray
... American races. Squier quotes Skinner as asserting that the Peruvians used to set up rough stones in their fields and plantations, which were worshipped as protectors of their crops. And Gam a says that in Mexico the presiding god of the spring was often represented without a human body, and in place thereof a pilaster or square column, whose pedestal was ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey |
