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Definition of Gamest

1. game [adj] - See also: game

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gamest

Literary usage of Gamest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1884)
"THE gamest FOX IN THE VALE. BY CAPTAIN CLARK KENNEDY. Such a run as I shall never see again ! To my little horse I owed, indeed, the cream of all the fun, ..."

2. American States, Churches, and Slavery by Joshua Rhodes Balme (1862)
"... said " that he was the gamest man that he ever saw." BROWN S HASTY TRIAL. He had revealed to the world the weakness of the slaveholder's cause, ..."

3. Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War by John Esten Cooke (1867)
"... had sent me the men, I could have held the hill; but, as I told you, the messengers I sent got lost." IL HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF MANASSAS AND THE " gamest ..."

4. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising by William J. Simmons, Henry McNeal Turner (1887)
"The gamest Negro Editor on the Continent—A Man of Grit and Iron Nerve—A Natural Born Artist. MEN are brave often from experience with arms and the scenes of ..."

5. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1871)
"Egeria also sailed well and carried on as usual in the gamest manner, carrying away her balloon-jib in coming in; but for once she found the pace too good ..."

6. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1884)
"THE gamest FOX IN THE VALE. BY CAPTAIN CLARK KENNEDY. Such a run as I shall never see again ! To my little horse I owed, indeed, the cream of all the fun, ..."

7. American States, Churches, and Slavery by Joshua Rhodes Balme (1862)
"... said " that he was the gamest man that he ever saw." BROWN S HASTY TRIAL. He had revealed to the world the weakness of the slaveholder's cause, ..."

8. Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War by John Esten Cooke (1867)
"... had sent me the men, I could have held the hill; but, as I told you, the messengers I sent got lost." IL HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF MANASSAS AND THE " gamest ..."

9. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising by William J. Simmons, Henry McNeal Turner (1887)
"The gamest Negro Editor on the Continent—A Man of Grit and Iron Nerve—A Natural Born Artist. MEN are brave often from experience with arms and the scenes of ..."

10. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1871)
"Egeria also sailed well and carried on as usual in the gamest manner, carrying away her balloon-jib in coming in; but for once she found the pace too good ..."

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