In the last century there was a fixed Maypole near Horncastle, in Lincolnshire, to which the boys made a pilgrimage in procession every May-day with May-gads in their hands.
May-gads are white willow wands, peeled, and dressed with cowslips.
But my Lads, my Lads, to morrow morning, by foure a clocke early at Gads hill, there are Pilgrimes going to Canterbury with rich Offerings, and Traders riding to London with fat Purses.
And by Gads life, I believe he will get clear, for he is a marvel at seamanship.
As he came out of Great Russell Street, bygads life!
Gads my life, if I thought it were so, I would this moment renounce all communication with you.
Gads my life, the man's distracted; why, how now, who are you?
Why, gads my life, cousin Mellefont, you cannot be so peremptory as to deny it, when I tax you with it to your face?
Dickens visited the city again in the summer of 1869, driving there from Gads Hill with some American friends, and made the Fountain Hotel his halting place, whilst he and his companions explored the city.
When Lawn Dyarrig came to the opening with the gads all twisted and made into one, they hadn't the ribs of the basket in the ground yet.
Gads so, Sherry, you gave me quite a turn," said the captain with unusual mildness.
There he tied his wild man to a column in a raised and high place, making a show of awaiting the hunt, whilst the flies and gads gave the monk exceeding annoy, for that he was besmeared with honey.
Careful examination will now generally disclose veins or seams traversing the stone, such of these as run in favourable directions should be selected, and the gads or wedges before described had recourse to.
All gads should be made of the best gad steel, carefully pointed and tempered.
At a little distance, on the edge of the clearing, Marty South was shaping spar-gads to take home for manufacture during the evenings.
An armful of gads thrown on the still hot embers caused them to blaze up cheerfully and bring her diminished head-gear into sudden prominence as a shadow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
