126 Verbs to Use for the Word gang

Logan's eye fixed itself on a hole in the turf bank bounding the road, and with great gravity, and in trust-inspiring accents, he said, 'I saw a tod (or fox) gang in there.' 'Did you, really;' cried the new comer.

Meanwhile, Seymour had called to the gateman for more water, and himself joining the gang, armed now with flat metal scoops, they all began to turn over and throw back against the stream the debris in the bottom of the boxes, giving the water another chance to wash out the lighter stuff and clean the gold from all impurity.

You can get us some native boys?" "I'll send you a fresh gang.

"I know you, Lefty; you can do a lot, but when it comes to leading a whole gang, like they said you was, and all thatwell, I knew it was a lie.

Barbaroux brings up a Gang from Marseilles.

I know that gang, Blutch.

Gee, that lets our gang out.

And the group round the tent whispered that Austin had done the unheard ofhad gone off and left the night gang at three o'clock in the morning.

Just after passing this gang we found, lying by the road, two large snakes, just killed, which I would gladly have preserved had it been possible.

The remaining years of his life, in which his best novels were written, were not given to literature, but rather to his duties as magistrate, and especially to breaking up the gangs of thieves and cutthroats which infested the streets of London after nightfall.

One day at Titusville, Pennsylvania, while Burke, the business agent, was registering our names and making arrangements for our accommodation, several of us started for the billiard room; but were met by the landlord, who stopped me and said that there was a party of roughs from the lower oil region who were spreeing, and had boasted that they were staying in town to meet the Buffalo Bill gang and clean them out.

Skinny bosses a gang of "picked-up" hay hands Old Heck brought out from Eagle Butte to harvest the second cutting of alfalfa.

"I maun gang, dearest; I maun gang," said Willie, and pressed her to his breast; "but the thocht o'

Since they're a superstitious lot, I reckon we can't hire another gang in this neighborhood.

And Barbaroux, who had promised Madame Roland to bring up from Marseilles and other towns in the south a band of men capable of any atrocity, had collected a gang of five hundred miscreants, the refuse of the galleys and the jails, and paraded them in triumph through the streets, which their arrival was destined and intended to deluge with blood.

Theoretically the master might be expected perhaps to expend the minimum possible to keep his slaves in strength, to discard the weaklings and the aged, to drive his gang early and late, to scourge the laggards hourly, to secure the whole with fetters by day and with bolts by night, and to keep them in perpetual terror of his wrath.

Again he made his escape, and soon afterwards he organized a desperate gang of outlaws who infested the country north of the Union Pacific railroad, and when the stages began to run between Cheyenne and Deadwood, in the Black Hills, they robbed the coaches and passengers, frequently making large hauls of plunder.

Although he was shivering with cold and crying, the driver was pushing him up in a trot to overtake the main gang.

Damn their eyes!" CHAPTER XXV HAIR LIKE THE SUNSHINE "Well," grumbled Lawlor, settling back comfortably into his chair, "one of these days I'm goin' to clean out my whole gang and put in a new one.

I want all the gang to board it.

Two men rushed for it while he held down the gang.

FAGIN, an old Jew, who employs a gang of thieves, chiefly boys.

But that the great body of the slaves, those that compose the field gangs, whose labor and exposure, and consequent exhaustion, are vastly greater than those of house slaves, toiling as they do from day light till dark, in the fogs of the early morning, under the scorchings of mid-day, and amid the damps of evening, are in general provided with no meat, is abundantly established by the preceding testimony.

I had taken a walk with a friend on his plantation, and approaching his gang of slaves, I sat down whilst he proceeded to the spot where they were at work; and addressing himself somewhat earnestly to a female who was wielding the hoe, in a moment caught up what I supposed a tobacco stick, (a stick some three feet in length on which the tobacco, when out, is suspended to dry.)

But this force was inadequate for the full routine, and in that year "jobbing gangs" from outside were employed at rates from 2s.

126 Verbs to Use for the Word  gang