Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Quoth he, 'This gambol thou advisest, Is, of all projects, the unwisest.
Quoth he 'this gambolthou advisest, Is, of all others, the unwisest.
A Turkey carpet was his lawn, Whereon he loved to bound, To skip and gambol like a fawn, And swing his rump around.
At every gambol played by the latter, it approached nigher to the dog, the growling of the three becoming more horrid at each moment, until the younger beast, overleaping its intended bound, fell directly before the mastiff.
Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale: A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Now sallies forth the gay Oxonian from the Christopher, ripe with the rare Falernian of mine host, to have his frolic gambol with old friends.
The wife steps slowly over what seems the sepulchre of so many pleasures; the children gambol as of old, and pick flowers.
He is a man of mirthful speech, Can many a game and gambol teach; Full well at tables can he play, And sweep at bowls the stake away.
I claim the blue and let My heart to gambol with the sky-herd there.
I but loosed my fancy from its tether to gambol at its will, and they do credit me amiss.
In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft would cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Ye shall go forth and gambol as calves of the stall.
Malachi is led to write--"Unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth and gambol as calves of the stall.
Have they been playing at the Abbot of Unreason here, and ended the gambol by burning the church?
A Christmas gambol oft’ would cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
And then is it, that the swimmers of Ohonoo most delight to gambol in the surf.
That a monster so ferocious, should suffer five or six little sparks, hardly fourteen inches long, to gambol about his grim hull with the utmost impunity, is of itself something strange.
Bring me to the test, And I the matter will reword; which madness Would gambol from.
Fishes, when they bite more readily, and gambol near the surface of streams or pools, foreshow rain.
Dolphins as well as Porpoises, when they come about a ship, and sport and gambol on the surface of the water, betoken a storm.
Mice when they squeak much, and gambol in the house, foretel a change of weather, and often rain.
The Junior Gambol came to an end at six that evening, and the tired students repaired to their rooms to rest and relax after eight hours of continuous entertaining.
As each succeeding year brought around the Junior Gambol the good woman hastened to view it with undiminished interest.
Not a bark or a gambol betrayed that he was after them, until the Captain on turning round suddenly saw him in their rear, close up to Bob's heels.
