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Definition of Gobbled
1. gobble [v] - See also: gobble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobbled
Literary usage of Gobbled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"I never gobbled one poor flat, To cheer me with his soft dark eye, &c. Yale Tomahawk,
Nov. 1849. I went and performed, and got through the burning, ..."
2. Letters of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (1895)
"I have planted pints of seeds, and not an aster of the hundreds of fine plants
I have set out from boxes but the slugs have gobbled. ..."
3. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"Don't be much surprised if you hear of us being gobbled up by the guerrillas,
for these railroad guards are only baits for them ; nothing more. ..."
4. Christopher in His Sporting Jacket by John Wilson (1901)
"... have time to look in one another's splashed faces, he is torn into a thousand
pieces, gobbled up in the general growl; and smug, and smooth, and dry, ..."
5. A Romance in Smoke by Daniel C. Reynolds, Walter Francis Brown (1876)
"Poor father, his black glossy hair had turned white, He was only a wreck and a
pitiful" sight ; The sheriff had gobbled our family estate, ..."
6. The Truth about Mexico: Being a Bird's Eye View of Political, Social, and by David Lawrence (1917)
"... itself that the immense resources of the country are not to be gobbled up
through false titles and special privileges, the foreigner will be welcomed. ..."
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