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  1. v. simple past tense and past participle of gambol.

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  • “I enjoyed your "gamboled", russet trees, autumn foliage and the picture you painted with words - large brush strokes of colour.”

    A Walk in the Shadows

  • “He drank and "gamboled" with the rest of the boys; but by nature not being vicious and low, the influences were not hopelessly deadening to the better qualities of his character.”

    Jane Cable

  • “While the three dogs—two big and one tiny—gamboled on the beach and darted in and out of the water, Ali walked beside Maddy Watkins.”

    Simon & Schuster: Fatal Error

  • “Time magazine reported that the relieved marines “gamboled in makeshift showers” and even retrieved baseball mitts to play catch while “the roofs of bunkers blossomed with Marines who were not, for a change, either running or ducking.””

    Simon & Schuster: Burial for a King

  • “     They'd originally dropped onto Earth from the loins of Bobo the Simple, the alien god-king who frolicked and gamboled on Everest those eons ago when Earth was still dewy and wet.”

    Fictionaut: How Veetzers Set Us Up For the Zorks

  • “Sheila and Colin unloaded grocery bags from the car while Patsy gamboled in the hedges by the side of the driveway.”

    Simon & Schuster: ALONE With You

  • “They gamboled toward her, bright and pretty as a flock of butterflies, girls and men in beautiful clothes, gathering up armfuls of wildflowers as they passed through the grassy glade at the far end of the tunnel of oaks.”

    Simon & Schuster: Songs of Love & Death

  • “While he and Lake sat to one side playing loo, and Mrs. Lake embroidered a cushion, Annabel and the children gamboled about the parlor.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Hellion in Her Bed

  • “Below the bank on which the centurions stood, their students joked and played and gamboled.”

    Archive 2010-03-01

  • “The moment Kashmir gamboled out of the exhibit, chaos erupted.”

    Simon & Schuster: BELLY UP

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