Citations:gambol


 * Verb
 * 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XII, page 134 (Harper)
 * The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
 * 1907: Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse, page 160
 * […] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
 * 1944: George Orwell, Animal Farm, page 15
 * In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
 * 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 22
 * It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
 * 1995: Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, page 286 ISBN 0553380966
 * Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.


 * Noun
 * 1843: Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug, page 10
 * When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.