1984 examples of ganging in sentences

The James gang of train robbers and the Younger brothers had been operating so successfully in Missouri, Kansas and Minnesota that other bandits had moved West to attempt similar operations.

When his ship was lying in the harbour of Virginia, a press-gang, that was in need of men for the Avenger, man-of-war, came on board and pressed poor Charles.

A hundred guineas was at once offered for my recapture, and though I evaded arrest for some months, a man named Gines, who had at one time been a member of a gang of robbers, undertook to lay hold of me, and tracked me to my place of hiding in London.

Another gang was moving a kedge-anchor across the deck, while a few more coiled heavy ropes beside the winch.

" Mayne went down the ladder and when he unlocked the iron door of the after wheel-house a gang of men brought out a row of small-boxes.

By and by another gang came along, but I refused to send a boat until I'd seen you.

*** A prisoner charged at London Sessions with stealing was described as "one of a most daring and clever gang of thieves."

and the head answered "Bride, bride, there thou are ganging!

and it answered "Bride, bride, there thou are ganging!

and the head answers "Bride, bride, there thou are ganging!

To the spectators they seemed hardly to move, but under their skins their muscles were crowding and shoving like a gang of slaves, and fairly squeezing streams of sweat out of them as if their gleaming hides were sponges.

Then she said abruptly: "Are you a Constitutionalist or a Liberal, Mr. Martin?" I must explain that, in the usual race for the former title, the President's party had been first at the post, and the colonel's gang (as I privately termed it) had to put up with the alternative designation.

This disposition seems to be instilled into the mind of every slave at the South, and indeed, I have heard slaves object to being sent in very small companies to labor in the field, lest that some passer-by should think that they belonged to a poor man, who was unable to keep a large gang.

The Captain and his party, enraged and disappointed in their plans at Palmyra, returned to Bath to see what could be done there toward success, in getting up a gang of slaves for the Southern market.

Would you call that a very intelligent gang of kids?

I saw on one occasion while travelling with my master, a gang of nearly two hundred men fastened with chains.

On looking out of the window, we saw the mill slowly moving in the wind, and the field gang were going out to their daily work.

The gang were expected to accomplish just as much as they did before, and to do it as well, however long a time it might require; and if they could finish in half a day, the other half was their own, and they might employ it as they saw fit.

It was supposed that his master was the cause of itmaking him an example of punishment to the rest of the gang!"

Mitchell, in reply, confesses himself from earliest youth a traitor to his country, and honours the British Government with the following epithets: "I say to them that they are not a government at all, but a gang of conspirators, of robbers, of murderers."

"Here's your daddie, bairns," said the gudewife ganging till the door; but i' place o' their daddie, a tall chiel wrappit i' a big cloak, rushed like a fire flaught into the bield, and drappit doun on the sunkie ewest the ingle droghling and coghling.

During this time, I never sterr'd a foot, but keepit keeking frae the back shop upon a' that was ganging on.

There we stood like two sumphs, (as Hogg calls those who are ganging a bit aglee in their wits) gaping and staring at each other with a look which said, why did not you shoot?

Losh, mon, we'll no be ganging north the day, an' ye bide droolin' there wi' the blitherin' Jacobites!"

In all the north country, it is always said, "I'm ganging east or west," etc., and it happened that Donald on his sick bed was lying east and west, his feet pointing to the latter direction, hence his reply to indicate that he could not swallow the medicine!

1984 examples of  ganging  in sentences