She got high and mighty, and I told her I was old enough to be her grandfather and that I wouldn't take gammon from a chit like her. From Wordnik.com. ["Your" Miss Lackland] Reference
"Now, that's what I call gammon," said Moulder. From Wordnik.com. [Orley Farm] Reference
I observed, "Well, I must say you 'gammon' through very well, for I always think you are one of the easiest speakers of the day.". From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
'Ha!' said the King, 'you dare to say "gammon" to your Sovereign, do you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose and the Ring] Reference
"Mr. Moulder, I don't exactly know what you mean by that word gammon, but it's objectionable. From Wordnik.com. [Orley Farm] Reference
"I didn't gammon him," said Lavender with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
'Don't think to come that gammon over us,' said they. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
"D'you think you can gammon me with your snivelling?". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
January 8th, 2007 at 8: 09 pm PST gammon reply goodwork xca. From Wordnik.com. [Mash-up: Placeopedia] Reference
‘Stow that gammon,’ interposed the robber, impatiently. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
“This is all gammon, Peacocke,” he said, when on board. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference
‘The meaning of that term — gammon,’ said Mr Gregsbury. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
"But what's all this gammon about me not being able to walk -?". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
A whole evening of back-gammon with her father, was felicity to it. From Wordnik.com. [Emma]
A whole evening of back – gammon with her father, was felicity to it. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
The fork-load of egg and grilled gammon stopped on the way to his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
‘Sir?’ said I. ‘And warious gammon,’ he repeated, in a louder voice. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
"I'm jest a tellin 'what the fortune-teller said;' tain't none o 'my gammon.". From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
By a pulley-rope wine is let down into a cellar, and by a gammon into the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
We have a carpenter of your name; we can gag him and gammon the public, as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference
"` Plenty gammon, plenty gammon, 'all that, as the black fellows say," replied the other. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross. From Wordnik.com. [The first part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
He refrains from boring his readers with prolix gammon about his foreign and domestic relations. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870] Reference
And so the poem goes on "with a rowly-powly, gammon and spinach," and nobody knows what it means. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
When Ishikola attempted protest, he shut him off with, “My word, you gammon along me too much.”. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER IX] Reference
A table covered with a green cloth, -- upon which lies a pack of monte-cards, a back-gammon-board, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
"Nonsense, boy, don't you try to gammon me," cried the master-at-arms, as soon as he was able to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
It dodging most nimbly round the sim, snatched up the gammon and fled out again, him pursuing but in vain. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
By the way, what an infamous shame it was of you to go and gammon old Mackenzie into the belief that he can read poetry!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
A back-gammon board, or pack of cards, was at hand when conversation flagged, and they were frequently brought into use. From Wordnik.com. [Bond and Free: A Tale of the South] Reference
But if you find that you can probably save the gammon by bringing both your men out of his table, do not wait for a blot. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
“The fool,” answered Wamba, raising the relics of a gammon of bacon, “will take care to erect a bulwark against the knave.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
It was with a delicate offering of "gammon and spinach" in his hands, Mr. Anthony Roley, of nursery fame, went so sadly a wooing. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
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