Many who question the propriety of woman's appearing in public, will revolt at the gagging of one who had a right to speak and claimed simply to use it on a proper occasion.
Only to think of me being the one as tied the last knot, and then never to think of gagging him.
He did not reply, so I said, I am sorry for you, the next time you want to have some fun in the bucking, gagging line you try some one else who likes that kind of sport better than I do.
Willis, which gentleman (pardon the expression) he berated to the utmost, telling him that he was not fit for a hog herder much less to be in command of human beings, who ever heard of bucking and gagging in the Confederate Army.
Of early gagging comedians, one of the most noted appears to have been Will Pinkethman, who flourished under William and Mary, and won honourable mention from Sir Richard Steele, in "The Tatler.
But, to the gagging player, a sense that his sins and failings are in this way liable to strict note and discovery, is grievously depressing.
In such cases the "extemporal wit," or gagging of the comic actors, was indispensably necessary.
On one occasion, however, as Davies relates, Pinkethman so persisted in his gagging as to incur the displeasure of the audience.
A gagging Polonius, Dogberry, Gobbo, or Gravedigger could scarcely expect much toleration from a modern audience; while it is true enough, that these famous personages do not often present themselves upon the scene in these times.
That excellent comedian, the late Drinkwater Meadows, used to relate a curious gagging experience of his early life as a strolling player.
Here the wildest liberty prevails, and the gagging actor is recognised as exercising his privileges and his wit within lawful bounds.
When he leaves the garden, I shall follow him; and if I signal you by raising my arm, throw yourselves upon him, gagging and binding him.
To the death," replied Giacinto, gagging his enemy with a pocket handkerchief.
So, however you look at it, there's nobody responsible for my gagging and for whatever is missing but one man, and that man is Jathrop Lathrop.
Mr. Samuel Martin, afterwards Sir Samuel Martin, and a baron of the exchequer, much increased his personal and legal reputation by opposing "the gagging clause.
Wide gagging of the mouth renders exposure of the larynx difficult.
No gag should be used, because the patient should be sufficiently anesthetized not to need a gag, and because wide gagging defeats the exposure of the larynx by jamming down the mandible.
Wide gaggingprevents proper exposure of the larynx by forcing the mandible down on the hyoid bone.
When the tip reaches the pharynx coughing, choking and gagging are noticed.
The binding and gagging of Haiuto was a disquieting and perplexing circumstance that did not seem to fit into the woof of the lieutenant's ideas in regard to Fairspeckle.
In that case, of course, the binding and gagging of the Jap was a blind.
It is not a nice thought, the idea of gagging a gentleman as if he were a murderous navvy or a savage dog that needs muzzling.
I said, if you remember, that you might go farther than simply give me your word of honour with regard to the gagging part of the matter, and might save us both a lot of trouble and discomfort.
The roughgagging which I several times endured wounded my lips very much; for it was common, in that operation, to thrust the gag hard against the teeth, and catch one or both the lips, which were sometimes cut.
I heard her threaten gagging her, and then say, "You are no better than anybody else, and if you do not obey, you shall be sent to the cells.
Whenever any loud noise was made, one of these instruments was demanded, and gagging commenced at once.
The disobedient were, however, soon overpowered: and to prevent their screams from being heard beyond the walls, gagging commenced immediately.
They began smelling smells they never dreamed existed--noxious smells, cloying smells, smells that drove them gagging to the sinks.
As Phillip waited for the bus, every passing car fouled the air with noxious fumes, gagging him, doubling him up with coughing as he dabbed at his streaming eyes.
The most liberal statesman did not think that season propitious for schemes of parliamentary reform; and the most conservative statesman could not pretend that there was any occasion for gagging bills and suspensions of the Habeas Corpus Act.
This method permitted him to withdraw his arm from around her form and to snatch a doily from the table which he quickly wadded and forced into her mouth, gagging her effectively.
Having completed gagging her, he stood off a pace and chuckled.
M144) What many found intolerably obnoxious were two "gagging clauses.
The gagging clauses jarred horribly, though they were trenchantly defended by Mr. Lowe, the very man to whose line of knowledge and intellectual freedom they seemed likely to be most repugnant.
Why then, Father John, not to tell you a lie, it is because you do be going on with your gagging at me so.
More power to you, Jonas Brown; tin pounds for a poor boy's warming his shins, and gagging over an owld hag's bit of turf!
Then don't you know yourself I live with Joe Reynolds down at Drumleesh, and war only up here jist gagging with the ould woman and the boys, and knew nothing in life--how could I?
By destroying the liberties of the people ingagging their representatives.
This question, and the avowed readiness to meet the gagging attempt, were not spoken without warrant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gagging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: nausea; nauseated; puke; regurgitation; spew; vomit; vomiting
