What will I not give to have Gargantua see us while we are in this maggotty crambo-vein!. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
The few works which treat on the subject have all become as obselete as "hot cockles" and "crambo.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference
So this moment at crambo (not shuffling) is spent. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
After it, the whole family played at 'dumb crambo.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference
"What! do you play at crambo with me?" said the Duke. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
“What! do you play at crambo with me?” said the Duke. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
"Why aren't you in number eight sap, instead of doing a dumb-crambo show?". From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
CRAMBE, game of crambo, in which the players find rhymes for a given word. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
What would I not give to have Gargantua see us while we are in this maggotty crambo-vein!. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
Their dumb-crambo to each other showed that anyone who said so wild a thing stood already self-condemned. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
I was going out of the temple, I observed in one corner of it a cluster of men and women laughing very heartily, and diverting themselves at a game of crambo. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Tales] Reference
The portraits on the sordid walls were very like the crambo in the minds of ordinary men, -- very like the motley pictures of the FAMOUS hung up in your parlour, O my Public!. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
I to the crambo-jingle fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
A 'ye wha live by crambo-clink. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
I to the crambo-jingle fell; 45. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle on J. Lapraik] Reference
A ye wha live by crambo-clink. From Wordnik.com. [On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies] Reference
No more with crambo entertain the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference
And play at crambo o'er his gill of wine. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works] Reference
And play at crambo for three hours at least. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
No more with crambo entertain the ftage. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical] Reference
On the meaning of crambo, 391. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
"Spinning the plate," "dumb-crambo,". From Wordnik.com. [In Simpkinsville : character tales,] Reference
(She crambo makes, with some mistakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Now suppose we have a game of crambo? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Cock-House at Fellsgarth] Reference
"lead-pencil games," -- "crambo" and "criticism" and "anagrams" and. From Wordnik.com. [Clover] Reference
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