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  • Gumming everything in sight — including muddy rocks and twigs — may offer babies hidden advantages, such as extra iron or other nutrients from the soil, Karp says.

    Parents' fear factor: A short toddle into the danger zone 2009

  • A: Gumming up the openings of novels with exposition and backstory.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Flogging the Quill’s Ray Rhamey 2006

  • Gumming around happily on that one plump prune per person, we were the picture of contentment.

    Frankie's Spuntino's Wine-Stewed Prunes and Mascarpone 2006

  • Gumming up the works is not something that goes unpunishedby the majority leadership.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • Vardon, and Gumming, said to be deadly to horses, was amongst them.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • She had established herself in rooms in Gumming Street, Pentonville, where she was very near him.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895

  • Jean Gumming of Altyre, who, in common with her three sisters, was a true soeur de charite, was one day taking her rounds as usual, visiting the poor sick, among whom there was a certain Donald MacQueen, who had been some time confined to his bed.

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • Miss Gumming, after asking him how he felt, and finding that he was “no better,” of course inquired if he had taken the medicine which she had sent him; “Troth no, me lady,” he replied.

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • The men of abilities greatly preponderated in the Troup faction; and the pens of Cobb, Gumming, Wild, Grantland, Gilmer, and Foster were active in promoting the election of Troup, and thereby regaining the lost power of the old Crawford or Republican party.

    The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870

  • Gumming Street, Pentonville, with a request to forward 'the amount for the trifle inserted' at the earliest convenience.

    The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865

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