Example Sentences

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"But I shouldn't have been gallivanting, you dear old Madden," she cried, with a joyous silver laugh, that was like the ripple of a cascade under a sunny sky.

From Henry Dunbar A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

How I have missed you while you have been gallivanting about New York without giving the friend of your freshman days a thought.

From Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]