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Faith, and while you have been gadding I might have had added a rasher of bacon.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I might have been gadding about safely with Sarah Churcher and her lot at this very hour, but you would have it otherwise, and so I finished up with neurasthenia.

From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold

I have been gadding about in Wall Street.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar

"Well, Thorndyke," I said, "I have been thinking about this Blackmore case while you have been gadding about."

From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

"There has been no landing, and all the fools in Scotland have been gadding about the roads for nothing."

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir