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"ref": "1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ....:",
"text": "This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.",
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"ref": "1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123",
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"ref": "1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML 19].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:",
"text": "But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.",
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"ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
"text": "If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.",
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"ref": "1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, l. 100, in 1851, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, The Yorkshire Anthology: A Collection of Ancient and Modern Ballads, Poems and Songs, Relating to the County of Yorkshire, page 71",
"text": "Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?"
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"ref": "1885 December 17, Detroit Free Press:",
"text": "Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again.",
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"ref": "1888, “Robin Spraggon's Auld Grey Mare”, in The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend, page 171:",
"text": "Our thrifty dame, Mally, she rises soon at morn, She goes and tells the master I'm pulling up the corn; He clicks up the oxen gad and sair belabours me, For I'm Robin Spraggon's auld grey mare, ae how he's guided me!",
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"ref": "1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, l. 100, in 1851, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, The Yorkshire Anthology: A Collection of Ancient and Modern Ballads, Poems and Songs, Relating to the County of Yorkshire, page 71",
"text": "Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?"
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"ref": "c. 1844, Prairie Farmer:",
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"ref": "1885 December 17, Detroit Free Press:",
"text": "Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again.",
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"ref": "1888, “Robin Spraggon's Auld Grey Mare”, in The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend, page 171:",
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"ref": "1908, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications, page 288:",
"text": "On the morning of Palm-Sunday, the gamekeeper, some servant on the estate, brings with him a large gad or whip, with a long thong; the stock is made of the mountain ash, […]",
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"ref": "1836, A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, page 4:",
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"ref": "1876, Armstrong, Wanny Blossoms, page 33:",
"text": "Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thy gad.",
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"ref": "1879, William Henderson, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders:",
"text": "Woe to the lad / without a rowen-tree gad.",
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"ref": "1896, Proudlock, Borderland Muse, page 268:",
"text": "We'll splice oor gads nigh Barra Mill, Beneath yon auld birk tree.",
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"text": "I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.",
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"ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 327:",
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"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XV:",
"text": "they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.",
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"ref": "1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:",
"text": "Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads.",
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"ref": "1836, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions, page 372:",
"text": "When a man received sentence of death, he was put upon the gad as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh […]",
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"ref": "1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 146:",
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"ref": "1840, Charles Henry Hartshorne, An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a Discourse on Funeral Monuments in that County: Delivered Before the Members of the Religious and Useful Knowledge Society, at Northampton, page 35:",
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"ref": "1842, Ecclesiological Society, Illustrations of Monumental Brasses ..., page 70:",
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"ref": "1858, Edward Cave, The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer: Volume the first [-fifth], for the year 1731 [-1735] ..., page 215:",
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"ref": "1992, Sir Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, page 214:",
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