251 examples of gamboled in sentences

For he knew now that she was helplessmore helpless than the little creatures that had gamboled in the moonlight a few hours before.

The trout that gambol in the pool She'll wound when she goes past; Then weariness will come upon The fins that flicked so fast; And one by one the lifeless things Will on the stones be cast.

Cunning as a fox were his would-be friends; but having got him to the bush, there they let him gambol as he would, ensnaring him to his own almost utter ruin.

How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.

Responsive to the sprightly pipe when all In sprightly dance the village youth were joined, Edwin, of melody aye held in thrall, From the rude gambol far remote reclined, Soothed, with the soft notes warbling in the wind.

Black lions visit us at times: eagles fly slowly over our heads; at dusk hippopotami come in parties of three and four to gambol in the river with the clumsy grace of negro children bathing.

When a wolf in his wide ranging found a good hunting-ground where small game was plentiful, he would snap up a rabbit silently in the twilight and then go far away, perhaps to join the other cubs in a gambol, or to follow them to the cliffs over a fishing village and set all the dogs to howling.

And there my lord and I used to gambol for an hour after our duties in court were over.

Naughty gamboled around Horatio.

Now they gambol o'er the clearing,off again, and then appearing; Poised aloft on quivering wing, now they soar, and now they sing: "We must all be merry and moving; we must all be happy and loving; For when the midsummer has come, and the grain has ripened its ear, The haymakers scatter our young, and we mourn for the rest of the year.

These youngsters may be nearly thirty feet long; but they gambol like so many kittens, twisting and turning over and over, and throwing themselves into the air.

" It became evident that the herd was aware of our approach, for they started; and, in an incredibly short time, had approached so near, that we could plainly see their elegant forms and color, as they proudly curvetted and gamboled over the plain fully five hundred yards away.

Of course exercise is a necessity, but it is not considered good policy to allow a dog in training to gambol about either on the roads or in the fields.

Young growing puppies must have their freedom to gambol about, and get their legs strong.

Round and round they gambol, tumbling each other over for all the world like young puppies.

J.J. Gambol (Gamble?) in north Louisiana bought us.

The dance was a gambol of passion.

"Quoth he 'this gambol thou advisest, Is, of all others, the unwisest.

In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with tritons and nereids; the pages of the family were converted into wood-nymphs, who peeped from every bower; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of satyrs.

On one side, the water-eagle sits in majesty, undisturbed, on his well-known rock, in sight of his nest, on the face of Ben Venue; the heron stalks among the reeds in search of his prey; and the sportive ducks gambol on the waters or dive below.

On each farm stood a village of wooden huts, where turbaned mammies crooned and piccaninnies gamboled in the sunshine.

When the babies were asleep the pixies or fairies left them, and gamboled on the neighbouring sward on which the old lady discovered the day after, several new green rings,a certain evidence that her fancy had not deceived her!

Hoofs beat steadily the while, As the horses gamboled, And along the shady aisle Spiritedly rambled.

Painted butterflies and gnats circled in the warm air; green lizards gamboled among the rocks that cut the turf.

If not disturbed, his fear will vanish, and he will gambol almost at your feet.

251 examples of  gamboled  in sentences