28 Verbs to Use for the Word gigs

On taking leave of us, he politely requested our company at breakfast on a following morning, saying, he would send his gig for us.

"I wish," cried John, with impatience, when at the distance of a couple of miles from the parsonage, "that gentleman had driven his gig out of the road.

Mr. Hardcastle found he was too busy at home to have time for neighborly visits, and went around the block rather than pass a door where he saw the doctor's gig.

I think I shall be obliged to borrow your gig.

He hired a gig and drove himself over from Cambridge to Folking.

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

So the Honourable on the tall four-in-hand saluted with marked emphasis the humble gig that pulled right out of the road to give him the way, and the Lady Blanche waved her hand to the dowdy in the dusty black silk with her sweetest smile.

Being anxious to join the gig, we pushed on, and at midnight were surprised by a loud call from Captain Wickham, who lay beneath the shadow of a high bank.

GIGMAN, Carlyle's name for a man who prides himself on, and pays all respect to, respectability; derived from a definition once given in a court of justice by a witness who, having described a person as respectable, was asked by the judge in the case what he meant by the word; "one that keeps a gig," was the answer.

Tim did not need to be told what the object was in launching 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.

An hour later the three ships passed within hail of each other, when both the junior commanders lowered their gigs and came on board the Proserpine to report.

our respectability was goneI mean the gig.

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He pulled a bell-rope and ordered his gig to the street door.

I returned the gig to Edinburgh, visited Arran and Bute, and we then went by coach to Carlisle, and by Penrith to Keswick (by the old road: never shall I forget the beauty of the approach to Keswick).

We chose double cars on iron springs, which we found not too easy: they were like old-fashioned, worn-out, and very shabby English gigs.

We'd better go to their rescue!" CHAPTER XXII AFLOAT ONCE MORE Captain Spark laid aside his binoculars and began shoving the gig down toward the line of surf.

"Else a wave may smash the gig.

" Down splashed the long-boat and down splashed the gig, but in an instant the coxswains and crews were swarming up the falls on to the deck once more.

These, though affording relief to the eye in the wide prospect that opened before us, are fraught with danger when occurring on the river; for on one occasion they nearly upset the gig, and threatened to consign its crew to a watery grave.

He always uses his gig for night-visits, and will, no doubt, be happy to carry you home in his wolfskin.

At the end of the second year of the S.F.M.E.'s resolve that Barkis must be cared for he was in receipt of nearly twenty-eight hundred dollars a year, could afford a gig, and so command a practice; and having obtained his start, his own abilities took care of the rest.

Edith suggested driving to the next market town to buy one; but her papa wanted the pony gig, so they could only sally forth to Mrs. Cox's for some more tissue paper, and begin the work again.

If only Paul would buy a yellow gig, like his friend Dr. May of Broughill, and take her with him on his rounds!

28 Verbs to Use for the Word  gigs