gasper

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Say, now, dear old Trapesy, I'm jest dyin' for a gasper Well, you go on dyin', an' I'll set right here an' watch how you do it If I was t' die you'd be sorry for this, I reckon Anyway, I'd plant some flowers on you, my lad, an' keep your lonely grave nice Huh!"

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  • As for the inconsiderate gasper … look at what she missed! —  The Publishing Contrarian
  • Say, now, dear old Trapesy, I'm jest dyin' for a gasper Well, you go on dyin', an' I'll set right here an' watch how you do it If I was t' die you'd be sorry for this, I reckon Anyway, I'd plant some flowers on you, my lad, an' keep your lonely grave nice Huh!" —  The Definite Object A Romance of New York
  • This leaving me ample time to smoke a gasper or two in a shady bower beside the lake, I did so, repairing to my room round about the hour of three Jeeves was on the job, adding the final polish to the old topper, and I was about to apprise him of the latest developments in the matter of Gussie, when he forestalled me by observing that the latter had only just concluded an agreeable visit to the Wooster bedchamber I found Mr. Fink-Nottle seated here when I arrived to lay out your clothes, sir Indeed, Jeeves? —  Right Ho, Jeeves
  • I was watching dirty jobs and they were shearing sheep, and called it a gasper if a sheep started gasping whil? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • I hope you'll read (and duly heed) _The Morning Post_ upon the "gasper." —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920
 

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