Example Sentences

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"Well, now, just because I happen to see you with Miss Pauline the other morning, there's half a dozen wise gabies in Wychford who've almost married you to her out of hand."

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

While we stand watching her Staring like gabies, Safe in each egg are the Bird's little babies.

From A Child's Garden of Verses by Smith, Jessie Willcox

“I have been a play-actor and know how to stage a pair of gabies to the show.”

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

This gentleman will take you for a pair of raw country gabies!

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

During all these years I have followed with reverent fingers not only the slopes of its roof but the loops of swinging clematis that crowd its balconies and gabies as well.

From The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht by Smith, Francis Hopkinson