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Definition of Gaped
1. gape [v] - See also: gape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaped
Literary usage of Gaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"gaped to marry, since the pecuniary loss is to be based upon conditions as they
existed at the time of the death complained of.47 It has been held that ..."
2. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, William Rishanger (1852)
"... water-mills stood uselessly still—the water being dried up; and the earth
gaped with numerous fissures; the corn, too, in a great many places scarcely ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"while the penumbras are cracked and gaped outward like old and wind-tossed palm
leaves. There is no certainty, therefore, that any but the principal spots ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"... they gaped upon him with their mouths, they sharpened their tongues like a
serpent, working deceitfully ; they compassed him about with words of malice, ..."
5. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"The apostle, however, kneeling on the magical tricks, at which they gaped with
ignorant wonder ;- for at his command a brazen serpent moved, ..."
6. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H. by Matthew Patten (1903)
"... of Land in Derryfield 30th Alexander and I went with the Oxen and Sled and
brot the barrel •of RUTH from Capt Moors to Chandler it gaped 31'г Gallon and ..."
7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"gaped to marry, since the pecuniary loss is to be based upon conditions as they
existed at the time of the death complained of.47 It has been held that ..."
8. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, William Rishanger (1852)
"... water-mills stood uselessly still—the water being dried up; and the earth
gaped with numerous fissures; the corn, too, in a great many places scarcely ..."
9. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"while the penumbras are cracked and gaped outward like old and wind-tossed palm
leaves. There is no certainty, therefore, that any but the principal spots ..."
10. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"... they gaped upon him with their mouths, they sharpened their tongues like a
serpent, working deceitfully ; they compassed him about with words of malice, ..."
11. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"The apostle, however, kneeling on the magical tricks, at which they gaped with
ignorant wonder ;- for at his command a brazen serpent moved, ..."
12. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H. by Matthew Patten (1903)
"... of Land in Derryfield 30th Alexander and I went with the Oxen and Sled and
brot the barrel •of RUTH from Capt Moors to Chandler it gaped 31'г Gallon and ..."
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