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  • You were definitely gadfly, though -- or perhaps more accurately, a "gad-about."

    pull all of our fingers 2007

  • Waid has fun with the characters, evventually bringing them to Las Vegas where we can see their alter egos at play, jetsetter billionaire Bruce Wayne and gad-about Hal Jordan in an exclusive club playing Blackjack.

    Comic musings for 2/21 Fred Perry 2007

  • Waid has fun with the characters, evventually bringing them to Las Vegas where we can see their alter egos at play, jetsetter billionaire Bruce Wayne and gad-about Hal Jordan in an exclusive club playing Blackjack.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Fred Perry 2007

  • β€œIt is you, you gad-about, is it?” cried the civilian.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • I had gone to see Anglo-Mania, which was fun and really, really made me want to go to London it's that mad-Freddy hair and gad-about trousers tight into boots...

    Emily Carr Lemon Hound 2006

  • I had gone to see Anglo-Mania, which was fun and really, really made me want to go to London it's that mad-Freddy hair and gad-about trousers tight into boots...

    Archive 2006-06-01 Lemon Hound 2006

  • That was the sad thing about Fluffy, she was such a gad-about, being everywhere where you didn't expect her to be; and so tiny that even when you did expect her, nobody knew she was there.

    Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • I find there are only two kinds of clerics as generally necessary to salvation in a country parish -- one leads his parishioners to the altar and the other to the pulpit: and the latter is vastly the more popular among the articulate and gad-about members of his flock.

    An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

  • Walker's, -- for there's where you'll find Jinny, the gad-about, -- and bring her home at the tail of your critter.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

  • A POUND OF TOW, 3abcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example of his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has since become a gad-about and a gossip.

    A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Josiah Henry Combs 1923

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