How To Use Gambol In A Sentence
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Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together.
Day of Honey
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The work is The Pretty Baa Lambs left, which shows a woman and baby in a field of gambolling lambs, and to modern eyes it seems remarkable that it shocked.
Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite radical who shocked the Victorians
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Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight.
Virginia: the Old Dominion
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I would love to be the person who saw the otters "gambolling in the snow" because that would be a fantastic sight.
Country diary: Yeo Valley, Somerset
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The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity.
Old Calabria
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Lambs were gambolling in the spring sunshine.
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The next day I woke up and the sun was out, squirrels and rabbits were gamboling on our lawn and all was right with the world, according to Papa and according to Momma.
My Sweet Audrina
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So while my fellow geeks gamboled and romped and played in the hotel lobby - within the warm and nurturing hug of the conference's bubble of wireless broadband access - I was alone in my room doing email.
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the gamboling lambs in the meadows
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Another no-mates, quarantined island where they gyre and gambol long and hard and in public.
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Walter Pater "gambolling," in the moonlight, on the velvet lawn of his own secluded Oxford garden, like a satin-pawed Wombat!
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
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On the old parade ground, schoolchildren gambolled like corduroy goats.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boat gamboled on her steady course, sails billowing and emitting brisk, tolling tones as the wind caught them high.
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So the animals will soon stop whimpering and licking their sore tails and soon start gambolling about again.
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When several of these fish take it into their heads to dance a "hornpipe," as the sailors have termed their gambols, at the distance of half a mile they, especially at or just after sun-down, may easily be mistaken for the sharp points of rocks sticking up out of the water, and the splashing and foam they make and produce have the appearance of the action of the waves upon rocks.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831
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In entertainment news, everyone - including his publicist - is concerned that Tom Cruise's cheese has slipped off his cracker, as he gambols about the country, behaving untowardly on Oprah, and setting up tents in Germany to convert onlookers to Scientology.
Ocean to ocean
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An outraged parent must have complained about our gambol through Times Square, because the next year we were bused to the Upper West Side of Manhattan and taken to the Museum of Natural History.
First Love & Other Obsessions
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Nellie joined him in a gleesome dance of triumph round the blushing, new-fledged Dick, and Rover gambolled behind the pair, barking loudly, in sympathetic accord.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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There were about 20 children gambolling about, singing, playing and frolicking.
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We gambolled and frolicked until about four-thirty am.
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The Wife, of course, was already having a marvellous time and had been gambolling around since we'd left the train station.
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At Dagne's Reef we passed time with Ben and Jerry, a pair of groupers who clearly enjoy divers' company and gambolled around like playful puppies.
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My Quotation reminds me of yours: how sparingly, and always just to the point, introduced; Polus 'gambolling' from the Theme: old Wordsworth's Robin Hood, etc.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II
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Mr. Boal's action and dance additions, duly spelled out in the program's scene-by-scene chart, vary and at times jar: The opening, with the village children gamboling into view, looks more like a free-time ballet-class romp than the playful bucolic vignette.
From the Northwest Emerges a New 'Giselle'
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There is nothing, indeed, that makes the judicious grieve more than maladroit flattery, which is as embarrassing to the victim as the clumsy caresses of the horse in the fable who tried to emulate the dog's gambols about his master.
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I grabbed Christian and made him indulge in a gambol with me.
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Then gazed up at distant peaks where the chamois gambolled and the snow still glistened.
Times, Sunday Times
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Laura's glowing face was fairly radiant with beauty, and her figure was unconsciously displayed in such a variety of bewitching attitudes and dainty postures, that even a pair of frisky kittens, that had been chasing each other round the grassplot and up and down the stems of the cherry-trees, ceased their gambols and lay still, crouching in the grass, and watching her graceful motions, as if taking heed for future imitation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
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Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan.
Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet
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She and Pacino have been glimpsed gamboling in Central Park with two-year-old twins Olivia and Anton as if they were in the first flush of wedded bliss.
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Her engaging survey and his fittingly opulent volume, an upbeat gambol through Bollywood's history, are both the work of knowledgeable enthusiasts.
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I have just been telling you what I think, in order to explain why the elephantine gambols of Madame Tetralani spoil the orchestra for me.
Chapter 24
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Still retaining his Zimmerman and his senses, he looked down and beheld the corniferous quadruped gamboling playfully round his singular asylum.
Sketches — Volume 04
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Young and old alike were enjoying watching their gambols.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will depart shortly for bucolic countryside home of Support Team's family, where frolicking and gamboling will ensue.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Have you been gambolling on the hillsides, skipping over bluebells and snowdrops whilst hiding eggs under tuffets of grass, listening to the call of new-born chicks?
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The newborn lambs gambolling in the fields are oblivious to the heartache which engulfed Town End farm two years ago, yet they symbolise the fresh optimism of farmer Chris.
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One of the joys of walking in the hills this weekend will be the sight of new-born lambs gambolling in the Easter sunshine.
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[Sidenote: A diuell fetching gambols.] togither, they brought it vnto him, and laid it altogither vpon an heape, so to delight his eies: but he declaring that he saw a diuell plaieng and fetching gambols about that heape of monie, commanded that it should be had awaie, and restored againe to them of whome it was leauied.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England
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No frivols, no gambols, no moments of spontaneous laughter.
BMW 640i: For the All-Business Person
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Even Jehu has been buckish, kicking up his heels and gambolling awkwardly.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
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Ronner, and one could linger for hours in these delightful and most comfortable catteries watching their gambols.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
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And yet so little was the pace to him that he fairly gamboled in playfulness as he went slashing along, until the deacon verily began to fear that the honest old chap would break through all the bounds of propriety and send his heels anticly through his treasured dashboard.
How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
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Hector, who had been gambolling about the porch, slunk in behind her, depressed by the angry voices.
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For example, in 1960 The New York Times fashion writer had talked about Jackie's bouffant hairdo ‘that gambolled merrily in the breeze’.
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A large, black dog came gamboling up, wagging all over.
The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber
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But a sharp "avast" stopped them, and four or five cabin-boys gambolled out on it ashore.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
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We know that spring is here - the daffs are up, indeed some are fading fast, lambs are gambolling, and everyone's going gardening crazy.
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While the Kennedy's -- Dad, John, Teddy and Bobby -- may seem like exemplars of the sex gambols, there were others, many, many others, equally blatant, but much more discreet, who used their powerful positions to exercise the venery.
Warren Adler: Chick Lit is Dead, Lover Lit is In
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Patel's gambolling leap of celebration into the dark desert skies will linger long in the memory, as will his dive forward to catch Umar Akmal off Finn to reduce Pakistan to 179 for five.
Alastair Cook leads way with another ton as England beat Pakistan
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There she was gambolling around Covent Garden one afternoon in her school uniform, minding her own business, when a scout from Elite modelling agency caught sight of the coltish 15-year-old.
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For four years John Phelan allowed the beautiful freckled-faced colt to frisk and gambol to his hearts content in long meadow.
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Then gazed up at distant peaks where the chamois gambolled and the snow still glistened.
Times, Sunday Times
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And on one early morning, when the sun was just up, two otters were seen gambolling in the snow.
Country diary: Yeo Valley, Somerset
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Hector, who had been gambolling about the porch, slunk in behind her, depressed by the angry voices.
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Their experience of clearing is as idyllic as a young fawn gambolling down a dew-laden hillside.
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I fancy the poor dog seems to feel the monstrosity of the performance, and, in sheer shame for his master, forgivingly tries to assume it is PLAY; and I have seen a little "colley" running along, barking, and endeavoring to leap and gambol in the shafts, before a load that any one out of this locality would have thought the direst cruelty.
The Twins of Table Mountain
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A sprinter gambolling down that long straight hill at a rainy Goodwood is operating in a totally-different theatre from a similar type of horse rushing around a cramped dirt bend in sunny California.
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Not only has he scrummaged well on what for him is the ‘wrong’ side, but he has gambolled about the park like a spring chicken, knocking people over and generally contributing far more to loose play than anyone expected.
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Young and old alike were enjoying watching their gambols.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hübbe gamboled gamely, swinging his leg up and over as if mounting a horse in preparation for pirouettes, or bounding in leaps as if he were riding a bronco.
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When I entered the fandak he came running up to me in a style suggestive of the gambols of a playful dog, and I was exceedingly annoyed by a thought that he might not know any difference between me and his other friends.
Morocco
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And, despite some frenetic gambolling and some moments of vivacious beauty, the plots are as much narrated as enacted.
One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review
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Young and old alike were enjoying watching their gambols.
Times, Sunday Times
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Going to the northern parts of the country or even the Swiss Alps for gambolling in the snow is soon going to be a thing of the past for Hyderabadis.
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Shakspearian, who could step from the musings of Windsor and the beautiful heroine, all romance and ethereal splendour, to the lasses in their gay kirtles, and Hob and Raaf with their rustic "daffing," as true to the life as the Ayrshire clowns of Burns, and all the clumsy yet genial gambols of the village festival.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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Elsewhere there is pealing for peeling ; bite for bight ; straights for straits ; gamble for gambol ; canon for cannon .
Coastal Disturbances
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There she was gambolling around Covent Garden one afternoon in her school uniform, minding her own business, when a scout from Elite modelling agency caught sight of the coltish 15-year-old.
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Compared to today, Monday qualified as a carefree gambol around Disneyland.
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Providence, and to prevent the abuse of these mercies by cowish gambols.
Rosin the Beau
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The dog at his feet, who'd been sniffing at me suspiciously and tugging at its leash, gave a sudden gambol and licked my hand, barking enthusiastically.
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The final day was a 20-mile gambol through a southern spur of the Brooks Range, the Blue Cloud Mountains.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold?
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A silvery thread of water cut through the forest lawn, a gambolling secret between high narrow banks.
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Only a curmudgeon would care that gamboling kittens may damage a few plants.
Gardens and Kittens with Recipe for Eggplant Kebab on Rosemary Skewers (Κεμπάμπ με Μελιτζάνες και Δενδρολίβανο)
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He flits and flies all over the camp, scampers and gambols, plays little mischievous tricks on everyone.
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Though for me the prettiest picture was the short white climb through wood anemones that brought us out of the valley and set us up for pastures where lambs posed on tree trunks and gambolled on grassy knolls to a backdrop of Helmsley Castle.
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The theatre is a small gem, quaint and beautiful, recently refurbished in a mellow and plush aubergine, with plaster seraphim and cherubim gambolling cheerily along the fronts of the balcony and boxes.
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No frivols, no gambols, no moments of spontaneous laughter.
BMW 640i: For the All-Business Person
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Monkeys gambolled from here to there, keenly aware that their sport afforded a fair chance of a good snatch, so he spent most of lunch snarling with a stick.
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His inexhaustible gift of lightning repartee I saw illustrated on another occasion, when he presided at the midnight "gambol" of a Bohemian club, at which it needed the utmost tact and presence of mind to "ride the whirlwind and direct the storm.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
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Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan.
Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet
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In Madman, he gambols and guffaws and plays shamelessly to the rafters -- and that's just during the curtain calls.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Geoffrey Rush In "Madman," Adam Rapp's "Hallway," Shaky Tennessee and Broadway Songs of 1921
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When we had watched for some moments their happy gambols, Mr.C. turned around and broke a twig from a bush that stood behind us; "_there is a bush_," said he, "_which has committed many a murder_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Dogs of decent size need a romp - a flat-out run, a gambol in a field or forest, a chance to splash in running water.
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Then gazed up at distant peaks where the chamois gambolled and the snow still glistened.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you listen closely you'll hear the lambs gamboling and the wolf growling away in the low brass.
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Bill's wet body was slippery, and Bill's merry soul was all for frolicsome gamboling, and he slid out of Milt's grasp, he sloshed around in the tub, he sprinkled Milt's sacred good suit with soapy water, and escaped, and in the costume of Adam he danced orientally in Milt's room, till he was seized with sleepiness and cosmic grief, and retired to
Free Air
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The draw has brought the inevitable return of him for a last gambol around Highbury and if they emulate Liverpool in dismissing Juve in the quarters, then they may face Inter followed by Barca or AC Milan in the final.
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It's supposedly, theoretically, marvelous to gambol about in a "something-for-everyone" culture where all tastes are catered to by one medium or many.
In the 500-channel universe, we're definitely lost in space
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Then gazed up at distant peaks where the chamois gambolled and the snow still glistened.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never missing a step, he dances between the bullets as if he was gambolling through a forest.
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I'll never forget Madan Lal's prodigious leap in his delivery stride, the ball wobbling under dense, oyster clouds and Kapil Dev gambolling in the deep to catch Richards.
Cricket World Cup needs classic moments – not Bryan Adams – to be a hit | Rob Bagchi
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Early one morning, when the sun was just up, otters were seen gambolling in the snow.
Country diary: Yeo Valley, Somerset
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This gambols from HIV clinic to perilous jungle and from child soldiers to sex tourists, while the kids just keep on smiling, tackling all manner of horrors with extrovert am-dram stylings and metaphorical swigs of Sunny Delight.
Africa United – review
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Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
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The label wears the logos of Kirkland Signature (Costco’s in-house brand), Disney, and the USDA Organic certification, all set in a peaceful blue sky above a field featuring Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, ’Roo and a unnamed bluebird (in the banner labeling the crackers “Organic”) gamboling about happily.
Kirkland Signature Disney Organic Animal Crackers - Vanilla
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When the daffodils are blooming and the lambs are gambolling in the fields, blissfully unaware of their impending association with mint sauce, the world of rugby divides itself into two.
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Satyrs and nymphs gambol about him harmlessly, and Silenus is a cheerful old soak.
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Whether it's true or not, the day when we gambolled happily through fields of wild flowers, swimming in mountain pools and picking mushrooms in the Autumn are over.
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In 1599 Kemp attracted much attention by dancing the morris from London to Norwich; and as well to refute the lying ballads put forth concerning this exploit, as to testify his gratitude for the favours he had received during his "gambols," [vii: 2] he published in the following year the curious pamphlet which is now reprinted.
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
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The term brings to mind green, pastoral fields dotted with contented content, the larger posts grazing in the sunshine, young article stubs gamboling about.
Wired Top Stories
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And yet so little was the pace to him that he fairly gambolled in playfulness as he went slashing along, until the deacon verily began to fear that the honest old chap would break through all the bounds of propriety and send his heels antically through his treasured dashboard.
The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories
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So, the wonderful free gambol in the pastures is over and The Guardian is now having to share the cowshed with everybody else; even the BBC will find itself lassoed by the government sooner or later.
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Spiral notebooks with fluffy white kittens, gamboling puppies, and vampy women batting dark-lashed eyes.
Day of Honey
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May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.
Will Durst: Summer: Day One
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It conjures up an even bleaker, but nonetheless beautiful landscape of rusted metal and sand, some figures gamboling just over the shore line towards a stunning sky of moody cumulous.
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The creators wanted him to resemble an ivy-league professor out for an autumnal gambol about the campus.
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While monster-hunting on this far-flung island's shores in 1998, I was enthralled to see otters gambolling playfully in the sand dunes.
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Refuse to accept the fact that the gambolling lamb in the field is their future Sunday lunch.
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And when I think that it is true — when I see that the sportiveness and kitten-like gambols of girlhood should be over, and generally are over, when a girl has given her troth, it becomes a matter of regret to me that the feminine world should be in such a hurry after matrimony.
The Small House at Allington
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Apart from a puppy gambolling across your tufted rug or the glint of a new relationship shivering off the walls, the only thing that can turn a cramped and dirty one-bedroom flat into something verging on magical is an expensive scented candle.
The beauty spot: scented candles
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We regard it, so far as there is truth in it, as one of those great germinant seed-thoughts, which at long intervals are dropped into the soil of the human mind; and though the mind of the age, in its first impulses of joy, may play wild gambols with it, it is destined in the end to mould and control the thinking of the civilized world.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
