Gilbertian libretti.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

There was something so "Gilbertian" in the idea of a prisoner acting as his own jailer!.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Paris to New York by Land] Reference

To turn a private name into a public epithet is a thing given to few: but the word "Gilbertian" will probably last longer than the name Gilbert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference

Landladies apart, however, the populace pooh-poohed the Gilbertian decree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

An appointment of a secretary was made in 1804, though it was an appointment of expedience, and had about it something of the flavour of the Gilbertian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd's Of London] Reference

Harburg's work combines two styles; there's the Gilbertian style, full of nutty rhymes and mangling of the English language ( "Something Sort of Grandish").    From Wordnik.com.  [Obscure Musical of the Week: "The Happiest Girl in the World"] Reference

But most of the lyrics in Happiest Girl in the World show off Harburg at his satirical, Gilbertian, rhyme-happy best, as in "Vive La Virtue" (also to a tune from Belle Helene).    From Wordnik.com.  [Obscure Musical of the Week: "The Happiest Girl in the World"] Reference

Swift had visited the Royal Society where he would have seen the Gilbertian terrella described in the catalogue as “an orbicular loadstone, about four inches and 1/2 in Diameter.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMIC VOYAGES] Reference

They were both born in unpromising circumstances, but their ascent to the high peaks of fame and fortune was even more successful than that of such renowned Gilbertian social climbers as the judge in Trial by Jury or Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Who Made a Revolution] Reference

When he made "Society" rhyme with "Propriety," he thought he was getting Gilbertian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ade's Fables] Reference

When he made "Society" rhyme with "Propriety," he thought he was getting to be Gilbertian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ade's Fables] Reference

And one feels that it oughtn't to be so; one feels that it's Gilbertian to the pitch of frenzied lunacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mufti] Reference

A high official with the Gilbertian title of Lord West of Spithead used it to great effect on 27 January.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Of him the great Gilbertian generalisation is untrue; he was not born either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Bernard Shaw] Reference

He is the only poet who was also, in the European sense, on the spot; even if, in the sense of the Gilbertian song, the spot was barred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference

It never has been approached, nor has the opera, so far as my information goes, ever been given with the same Gilbertian verve and swing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

It was a distinctly Gilbertian situation, and the people to whom they introduced me were quite as picturesquely disreputable as themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Exiles and Other Stories] Reference

He had skimmed drowsily through the first ten lines or so when one of the Gilbertian carabineros appeared from behind a cactus-bush and accused him of being a smuggler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

He produced one day a copy of verses, written in the Gilbertian metre, to illustrate his mental attitude, and they strike me as so neatly worded, that I will reproduce them in full.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference

Gilbertian, is the statement of a kind of arid soul-culture more sterile than that of any cloister, the soul-culture of the scientist who thinks he has found out, and can master, the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference

Shaw proved horribly wrong in condemning Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest as a mechanical Gilbertian farce, but I'd rather read Shaw at his most ­perverse than any of his prosaically correct contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Gilbertian tone about the whole piece which I should be rather more surprised at being the first to note, so far as I know, if I were not pretty well prepared to find that the study of the average dramatic critic is not much in Peacock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gryll Grange] Reference

Committees and sub-committees were appointed to thresh out these details, and some of them relieved the tedium by wandering into such interesting by-ways of irrelevancy as housing and land purchase, all of which, in Gilbertian phrase, "had nothing to do with the case.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulster's Stand For Union] Reference

A fantastically and humorous peculiarly Gilbertian idea is the comparison between a visit to the dentist's, and an interview with the questioners by the rack, suggested by the Grand Inquisitor Don ALHAMBRA who says that the nurse is waiting in the torture-chamber, but that there is no hurry for him to go and examine her, as she is all right and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890] Reference

TORVALD, "I expressed myself with ultra-Gilbertian frankness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891] Reference

"A Gilbertian idea, to say the least," I smiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference

Gilbertian manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference

"Gilbertian situation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]