Verb (used without object) : to gad about. From Dictionary.com.
There are several species known under various names, such as gad-fly, breeze-fly, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
His father saw him coming, met him with a "gad" and lashed him furiously. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned] Reference
"gad" is used in our western counties for a stick pointed at both ends to fasten down thatch. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Things were gettin 'just a shade too warm, by gad!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference
"By gad, I've got it, and Hilary's the man to help me.". From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"Where, gad zooks, Mrs.H. -- at the stocks to be sure!". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
By gad, sir, show me the man that says so; show 'im to me!. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
'Oh, by gad,' said the Colonel, 'but you must and you shall. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Point cannot certainly be accused of a tendency to gad about. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
September this gad-fly is busily engaged in depositing its eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
"Be gad, I don't belave ye know an Oirishman's appetite at all.". From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
And by gad, Dudley, I don't see how he could have come that way!. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
Having a fair horse, he gave it the gad and struck into a gallop. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
We just asked him as a joke because he is such a great gad about. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from Brazil How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore] Reference
And you shall be; you shall be; 'gad you sha'n't be able to help it. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
But when somebody went and repeated it, Jim swore, by gad, Tom lied. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
No more would she gad about to learn the doings of her little world. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Yes, by gad! and I can make a pretty good guess who that stiff is!. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Sirajuddaula: find out whether that's the case: and gad, sir, if it is. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
But -- "By gad, sah," he said cracking his whip -- "By gad I'll do it!". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
"By gad," I flashed out, "I can do it -- in Thompson's abandoned stope!". From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
"Say, by gad, though! that bird is a fright!" ejaculated George suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
"Six heats an 'the last one the fastest -- By gad, sah," said Col. Troup. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
It'll break in half an hour, 'gad, I know it will -- I feel it in my bones!. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
That mare Lizzette is a wonder, an 'by gad, sah, didn't the old pacer come?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Alas! that one's dearest friend should be transformed into a teasing gad-fly!. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference
All you do is day after day to associate with your friends and foolishly gad about!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
By gad, man, if I didn't hurt when I pinch myself, I'd think I was asleep and dreaming. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
"I'll be d---- d if they shall have the cow-gun," he remarked, and, by gad, they didn't. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
However, the birds were great gad-abouts during the day, and Tania could hardly blame them. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Clean fighting is what I set out to do, and gad! this kind of thing turns a fellow's stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Then Marched the Brave] Reference
"Well," he continued, "what does he mean by letting you gad about in such onconsequential style?". From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
"You don't water the flowers, nor feed the birds or prepare the tea stove, but gad about outside!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
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