gabies

Eight years ago, when Verona had given a high-school party, the children had been featureless gabies.

Babbit 2004

Eight years ago, when Verona had given a high-school party, the children had been featureless gabies.

Chapter 18 1922

Eight years ago, when Verona had given a high-school party, the children had been featureless gabies.

Babbitt 1922

Eight years ago, when Verona had given a high-school party, the children had been featureless gabies.

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

'Don't be so silly as to take any notice of the great gabies,' said Mrs

Women in Love 1907

"I have been a play-actor and know how to stage a pair of gabies to the show."

The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

During all these years I have followed with reverent fingers not only the slopes of its roof but the loops of swinging clematis that crowd its balconies and gabies as well.

The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht 1909 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

Never in my life did I witness greater humbug; and yet so intense was the anxiety of the Boston public to witness the miracle, that during all the day and half the night the spirit was being invoked by the witch, into whose pockets were pouring the dollars of thousands of greater gabies than myself, for many went away believers, receiving the first germs of impressions which led them to a Lunatic Asylum, or an early grave, as various statistics in America prove most painfully.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

I am nearly sure — I cannot yet be quite, I mean to experiment, when I am less on the hot chase of the beast — that, even at the instant he shrivels up his leaves, he strikes his prickles downward so as to catch the uprooting finger; instinctive, say the gabies; but so is man’s impulse to strike out.

Vailima Letters 2005