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The girl must be sixteen, or thereabout, of decent behaviour and tractable, no gadder or lover of finery, healthy, able to read, an early riser, and, if possible, devout.— Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
She's got sense and she ain't a gadder, and would rather work than play, same as me But her temper, Rupert, her famous temper," I murmured to the man, "and her woeful, craakin voice Nobody won't hear no more about her famous temper," he said, "not after she's married me.— The Torch and Other Tales
Wakefielde, a Yorkshire man, who was an hermite, an idle gadder about, and— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Here Mishder Twine, to gadder breat,— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
Not that Kate was a gadder about or a gossip, but she was sleeveless, dawdling, and dreamy, and always behindhand.— True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best

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