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“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.”

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020

What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2019

Shirley MacLaine, doing her best Gwen Verdon impression, gambols onscreen like a giddy doo-dah, and then she does the same thing in reverse.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs? jimmy snyder.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer