The rumour of the Duke's coming had spread all over the city; there were plenty of gaffers about.
The troops assembled on the Kouter which was thronged to overflowing with gaffers and idlers.
The gaffers testified afterwards, that Uncle's talk, before Saint came in, was even more genial and easy than usual.
The girl was sure to resent a rebuke before others, and already the gaffers were grinning at her.
Weel, he maun learn, Peter, that gaffers are no' gaun to put up wi' his nonsense.
If they'd be true an' stick to yin anither, they'd damn'd soon put an end to sic gaffers as you.
I reckon the days be departed For such jolly gaffers as I; Folks will never again be light-hearted, As they was in the days that's gone by.
In the porch of Lewanick church, in Cornwall, the piece of freestone that supports the seat on which the gaffers sat before and after church is sculptured with a hare-hunt.
It is a slight, easy, but graceful dance--graceful when not danced by old gaffers and grannies.
It was from behind this knot of gaffers that there rose gradually a tumult as of a man calling out in wrath and lashing himself into a fury.
It ought to be easy to borrow a couple of them," said Pete quietly--"zome night when the two gaffers are asleep.
The gaffershave been off somewhere, and have just come back.
S'pose not, zir; but they'd make howl enough to bring the gaffers back to lay 'em on our scent.
The spinner tossed the coins again, and, as they fell, the gaffers cried "Two heads!
The gaffers scrambled for places, wedged in a compact circle, the spectators standing behind them to advise or take a hand as occasion offered.
The boxer ran swearing into the ring to hide the kip and the pennies, butting with his bull shoulders against a mob of frenzied gaffers mad with fear and greed, grabbing at any coins they could reach in despair of finding their own.
The gaffers ran here and there bewildered, cursing and swearing in an impotence of rage.
The gaffers realized that a trot of heads was coming, and the boxer had to offer twelve to ten to cover Chook's stake.
It was this last paragraph that made the gaffers shake their heads and say "Lordy!
Interested in the scene, Sir Humphrey had paused a moment, watching the pompous beadle and the crowd of gaffers and women.
The gaffers were putting their heads together, whilst the young ones whispered eagerly,-- "Brown coat!
No wonder the gaffers could think of nothing to say; no wonder the young men looked at one another shamefaced, and in fear.
And all the babbling of their chiding and crowing and laughter comes across the babbling of the brook to the ears of the old gaffers gossiping on the wall.
Not without reason does the wary writer put gossip in the mouths of gaffers rather than of gammers.
The crows flapped slowly home, and the Gaffers moved off too.
Two gaffers gossiping, seated side by side upon a Yorkshire wall.
All the gaffers were waiting who had waited to see the result of Mr. Cheeseman's suicide, and their patience was less on this occasion.
Six or seven hale old gaffers (not too stiff to walk, with the help of a staff, a little further than the rest) were coming to hear parson by the path below the warren, where a smack of salt would season them for doctrine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaffers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
