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  • "Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration, " said Ron to general astonishment.

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • The ladies drink while Mrs. Gamp discourses, but Mrs. Prig attempts to take two drinks for Mrs. Gamp's one.

    Christmas Meeting 1945

  • Mrs. Harris is a life-long and imaginary companion of Mrs. Gamp, her confidante on every occasion, and her court of appeal in every argument: The scene is laid in Mrs. Gamp's famous room which is so intimately described by Charles Dickens.

    Christmas Meeting 1945

  • Open flew Gamp's mouth again, and his braying laugh caused a passing pedestrian to dodge so suddenly that he jumped from under his own hat.

    Frank Merriwell's Races Burt L. Standish 1905

  • Gamp's brain -- as Messrs. Doe and Roe are fictions of the law -- created for the express purpose of holding visionary dialogues with her on all manner of subjects, and invariably winding up with a compliment to the excellence of her nature.

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • Gamp's lamentations, that she was connected with the stage-coaching or post-horsing trade.

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigura " -

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • Gamp's patient at the Bull) smiled in saying these words; and casually added, as he brushed some grains of snuff from his shirt-frill, 'I always take it myself about this time of day, do you know!'

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

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