Heretofore the slaveholders have uniformly, by enforcing the previous question, imposed their several gags by a silent vote.
Balthazard made a lengthy lecture about the autopsy, the spots found on the carpet, the cotton wool gagsand what not.
During the passage from the mine to the automobiles each of the girls wore a shawl thrown over her head and pinned close in front, thus concealing both the gags and the manacled condition of their hands.
The gags and cloth manacles were so well made that one might have suspected them of being products of a manual training school of burglars' wives.
While the other four in the party of rescuers kept watch against a surprise, Clifford cut the bonds on the wrists of the girls and removed the gags from their mouths.
Jester: I'll take off their gags so and let them free.
In the meantime, Lawrence was ripping the gags out of the mouths of the two men but he could not free them as the anklets and handcuffs were locked on, and he did not know where to look for the key.
Jimmy Reynolds' gagswere new around the show, and if Alfred was not receiving Jimmy's salary he was telling his jokes.
And in that same instant I caught a momentary glimpse of the forms of Captain Roberts, Mr Bligh, and Mr Johnson, bound hand and foot, and with gags in their mouths, huddled up in three of the recently vacated bunks.
He was ordered to get a supply of rope, and some wood, to make gags for the men they were to stun.
The other Gagscame and went, but he heeded them not.
Being there arrived, and hoisted on to the deck, they took the gags from our mouths and lowered us into the hold.
Hence the fellows laid hold upon us without much difficulty, and clapping handcuffs upon our hands, and gags in our mouths, had us at their mercy.
Well they was as many there as could crowd in and the band played and they was singing and gags and storys and etc.
Well Al I suppose Alcock and Brady and them has been playing another 1 of theirgags on me and I hope they enjoyed it and as far as I am conserned they's no harm done.
Saturday night and they will be singing and gags and etc.
What you need most is a pair of gags and some blinders.
Well, maybe he was; but Biddy wouldn't let him try none of them laboratorygags on her though she just as soon be hypnotized and telepathed as not just to humor him.
It won't do, I thinks, to spring none of them agnostic gags on him, so I says nothing.
Some entire points and gagswill be found to be dead beyond resurrection, and even whole series of gags and points must be cast away and new and better ones substituted to raise the golden laughs.
Vividness If a successful monologue writer has in mind two gags that are equally funny he will invariably choose the one that can be told most vividly--that is, the one that can be told as if the characters themselves were on the stage.
It is for precisely this purpose of weeding out the good points and gags from the bad that even famous monologists "hide away," under other names, in very small houses for try-outs.
The Sidewalk Conversation or Gag Act This form may or may not open and close with songs, and depends upon skillfully blended, but not necessarily related, gags and jokes.
That is why the monologist illustrates his points and gags with gestures that picturize.
You have brought this she-devil here to work off her bad gags on me.
But, whether a two-act makes use of songs or tricks or anything else, does not change the principles on which all two-act points and gags are constructed.
Two familiar gags or points will kill at least twenty-five percent of his applause.
Before they could cry out, gags were thrust in their mouths, and then in the confusion that prevailed they were carried rapidly from the spot.
If you will give me your words to make no outcry, I shall have the gags removed," he said in a shrill, quavering voice, plainly disguised.
Within powerful arms seized them and dragged them down; and before they could cry outgags were stuffed in their mouths.
Now if you'll promise to make no outcry while I'm gone, I will not have the gags replaced in your mouths.
With that he opened the sharp claws on one of his hands, like a pair of scissors, and without more ado cut the bands that had been placed as gags around the captives' mouths.
But they did fear that one of the Nurses might again cry out; and they stopped long enough to fasten gags upon their mouths.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gags" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
