"Gam" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I don't mind sayin', sir, that I'm just plain mad curious to hear. I'll join you down in the cabin, say in ten minutes, and we can have a real gam. But anyway, whatever your game is, I'm with you. Because it happens to be my game to get quick into port, and because, sir, I have a great liking and respect for you. Now shoot along. I'll be ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... cowardly Bullies, tatter'd Gam'sters, and Fellows that have been twice transported, poor, unhappy scoundrels that disturb the Nation to please you rich Male-Contents, and ...
— The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) • Thomas Baker
... for a gambling joint," says Ag. "You take a tin-horn gam, and he knows everything, and that's just the kind of man ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips
... present in the next issue of the MISSIONARY an article from Rev. Jee Gam, the missionary of the A. M. A. in San Francisco, giving his views and interpretations of the trouble in China. This Association is closely related to the great work in this Empire through the missions in our own country ...
— The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900 • Various
... Owen Gam. This name savours strongly of the leek, both Christian and surname being unequivocally British. Gam, in Welsh, signifies the "one-eyed;" we may conclude, therefore, that this gentleman, or one of his progenitors, had lost an eye in one of the frays common in bygone ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 • Various
... of money, Ephraim, that I am giving you ... many a merchant can't lay his hands on it," he said, hesitatingly; "but if ... you were to ... gam—" ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2) • Various
... this gallant Welshman, the following account is taken from the Appendix of the "Battle of Agincourt." "Dr. Meyrick (now Sir Samuel) says, Davydd Gam, i.e. Squint-eyed David, was a native of Brecknockshire, and, holding his land of the honour of Hereford, was a strenuous supporter of the Lancastrian interests. He was the son of Llewellyn, descended from Einion Sais, who possessed a handsome property in the parishes ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler
... pressure groups: Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial, and Financial Associations (CACIF); Mutual Support Group (GAM); Agrarian Owners Group (UNAGRO); Committee for Campesino Unity (CUC); leftist guerrilla movement known as Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union (URNG) has four main factions - Guerrilla army of the Poor (EGP); Revolutionary ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... upon the tumbling decks of the Nathan Ross was to be told and re-told at many a gam upon the whaling grounds. It was such a story as strong men love; a story of overwhelming odds, of epic combat, of splendid death where blood ...
— All the Brothers Were Valiant • Ben Ames Williams
... Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire; None else of name; and of all other men But five and twenty.—O God, thy arm was here; And not to us, but to thy arm alone, Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem, But in plain shock and even play of battle, Was ever known so great and little loss On one part and on the other? ...
— The Life of King Henry V • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]
... Carminativo, lo que pertenece los remedios contra los flatos. Carminativo, ang ukol sa gamt laban sa hangin na nasa loob ...
— Dictionary English-Spanish-Tagalog • Sofronio G. Calderon
... 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 listen ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... of money, Ephraim, that I am giving you... many a merchant can't lay his hands on it," he said, hesitatingly; "but if... you were to... gam—" ...
— A Ghetto Violet - From "Christian and Leah" • Leopold Kompert |
