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Our usual presenter Max Rushden was gadding about in Italy this week, so Melissa Rudd was in the Big Chair for this week’s episodes of Football Weekly.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2018

Everybody was gadding about in a state of joyous exultation.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip

"In my young days all I thought of was gadding about," said Mrs. Carr, smiling.

From Salthaven by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)

Kit feared to stop long with her new friend lest Churn should arrive while she was "gadding."

From The Lion's Mouse by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

I can now keep my mony in my purse, that still was gadding out for Scarfes and Wastcoats: and keep my hand from Mercers sheep-skins finely.

From The Scornful Lady by Fletcher, John