372 examples of gig in sentences

"If," said Denbigh, modestly, "if Mr. Moseley will take the ladies in my gig, I will drive the phaeton to the hall, as it is rather unsafe for so heavy a load.

It was not a moment for affectation, if Emily had been capable of it, and blushing with the novelty of her situation, she took her place in the gig.

" "Surely not, Mr. Denbigh," replied Emily, in a low tone; and the gig stopping, she hastened to accept the assistance of her brother to alight.

Now, John fibbed a little, for neither Grace nor he had thought in the least about them, or anything else but each other, from the moment they separated until the gig arrived.

The morning this conversation occurred at the cottage, Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis, with their daughters, made their unexpected appearance at L. The arrival of a post-chaise and four with a gig, was an event soon circulated through the little village, and the names of its owners reached the lodge just as Jane had allowed herself to be persuaded by the colonel to take her first walk with him unaccompanied by a third person.

After our meeting I received a letter from dear S.S., saying that he had felt a prayer raised in his heart, that I might be helped in my undertaking by Him from whom best help comes, and that he was most easy to propose accompanying me on my way in his gig.

I think they call it a gig, and I believe old Mr. Butterwood used to drive about in it.

In a gig, you know, you can go anywhereinto wood-roads, and all sorts of places where you couldn't turn around with anything with four wheels.

TOLBRIDGE'S REPORT IS NOT ACCEPTED A few days after Miss Bannister's call at Cobhurst, it was returned by Ralph and Miriam, who drove to Thorbury with the brown mare and the gig.

"And did you give your sister a drive in the gig?" "Oh, yes," said Ralph, "I easily caught her again, and I curried and polished her up myself, and trimmed her mane and tail and fetlocks, and since she has been having good meals of oats, you can hardly imagine what a sleek-looking beast she has become.

I wonder if your sister will ever ask me to take a drive with her in the gig?

"I am sure," she said, when she had heard what had happened, "that my brother will be very glad to lend you the gig.

" "A gig will do very well, indeed," said Mr. Bannister.

" "Oh, we have gig harness," said Miriam, "and we will lend you a horse, too, if you like.

She was irritated because Herbert had returned so soon, and because he was going to take her away before she was ready to go; and although she would have been delighted to have a drive in the Cobhurst gig, provided the proper person drove her, she did not at all wish to return to Thorbury in that ridiculous old vehicle with Herbert.

In the one case, she could imagine a delightful excursion in she knew not what romantic by-roads and shaded lanes; but in the other, she saw only the jogging old gig, and all the neighbors asking what had happened to them.

I think I shall be obliged to borrow your gig.

The gig is here in the barn, and I can lend it to you just as well as he can."

Where can I find the gig, Miss Haverley?" Miriam led her visitors to the second floor.

Now as she stood by the old gig, toppling forward with its shafts resting upon the floor, she thought she had never seen such a horrible, antediluvian old trap in her life.

"Herbert," she remarked, not too earnestly, "I think we shall be putting our friends to a great inconvenience by borrowing the gig.

And, besides, there will be the trouble of getting the gig back again.

Mrs. Browning and the gig were very well in their places, but something more would be needed when the green leaves came.

As soon as his gig was seen, the people, who were in hiding, came out, and they put themselves between him and Browne, telling him up to his face there was to be no fighting that day!

And the priest, who was at the head of them, said the same; but Joyce, who knew his countrymen, paid no heed, but stood up in the gig, and, looking round him, said, 'Now, boys, which is it to be?

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