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Until I read this article in Gaper’s Block, I had not [...]
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Until I read this article in Gaper’s Block, I had not realized that comic artist extraordinaire Alex Ross lived in Wilmette.
Virtual Round Table 2003
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Streets what they call the Sign of the Gaper, that is, the
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You can laugh, Mrs, good old Frankie Howard would have said if he had been deaf and had to lip read Brown, for reading the Great Gaper and Gasper really is no joke.
The Madness Of King Brown Newmania 2007
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Gaper: Someone who is uncoordinated: "That gaper hit me in the head with his skis."
Snowboarding 2008
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But the guards still remaining restive, Sempronius himself attacks Juba, while each of the guards is representing Mr. Spectators sign of the Gaper, awed, it seems and terrified by Sempronius threats.
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This clumsy sign is called _de Gaaper_, -- the Gaper, -- and I know not the origin of it.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Juba, while each of the guards is representing Mr. Spectator's sign of the Gaper, awed, it seems, and terrified by Sempronius's threats.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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Gaper, awed, it seems, and terrified by Sempronius's threats.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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The Breckenridge Police Department has announced increased enforcement on what many locals call "Gaper Day."
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By ROBERT ALLEN summit daily news 2010
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