But Esau was a gamesome professor, a huntsman, a man of the field; also he was wedded to his lusts, which he did also venture to keep, rather than the birthright.
Looking backward over an angling career of half a century, the gamesome "sunny" with its coat of many colors shines out as a bright particular star among those of greater magnitude.
It is no disparagement, then, to the gamesome trout, to declare the grayling its equal when of similar size and weight.
But that active and gamesome maid was most entirely on the alert.
A loving, and, but add to it, a gamesome Bedfellow, being the sure Physician.
In a word, this new Race of Criticks seem to me like the Lion-Whelps in the Tower, who are so boisterously gamesome at their Meals that they dash down the Bowls of Milk brought for their own Breakfast.
His name in the plural, Fauns, expressed a class of gamesome deities, like the Satyrs of the Greeks.
In vain your knuckles knock your brow, In vain will you remember how Like a slim brook the gamesome maid Sparkled, and ran into the shade.
Calm yourself, Midas; none believe the tale, Some impious man or gamesome faun dares feign In vile contempt of your most royal ears.
Let all the woods be sought, Let every dryad, every gamesomefaun [Footnote: MS.
Away they sped with gamesome minds, And souls untouch'd by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in: Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn.
Like gamesome boys over the churchyard dead; The light in vain keeps looking for his face:-- Now screaming sea-fowl settle in his place.
As ifgamesome winds and gamesome youths were not sufficient, it was the habit to swing these feeble luminaries from house to house above the fairway.
He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.
Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash.
Why then, Tim, the only safe way for these gamesome macquerellas[123] is to antedate their conception before their separation.
This very morning by times we must be fitted with our properties, and with a scornful neglect pass by that rendezvous where our gamesome ladies expect their youthful Platonics.
We are the monks of Oyster-le-Main, Hooded and gowned as fools may see; Hooded and gowned though we monks be, Is that a reason we should abstain From cups of the gamesome Burgundie?
Though our garments make it plain That we are Monks of Oyster-le-Main, That is no reason we should abstain From cups of the gamesome Burgundie.
But I'm goin' to quit gamesome company an' playin' kyerds an' sech.
Noisy he was, and gamesome as a boy; His limbs would toss about him with delight Like branches when strong winds the trees annoy.
The description "Noisy he was, and gamesome as a boy," is verified by what the poet and his wife said to Mr. Justice Coleridge in 1836.
But Snap was a great deal too gamesome a dog to come back--even if he heard him.
