The priest and the "Gombeen man" deal with them on the old principle of "freedom of contract.
It is obvious how much power, political as well as social, is thus lodged in the hands of the dealers, and especially of the "Gombeen men.
At Burtonport we found the "Gombeen man," of Dungloe, represented by a very large "store.
He is just Mr. Sweeney, the Gombeen man; he and his brothers, they all came here from where I don't know.
But it blooms all over with evidences of the prosperity of that interesting type of Irish civilisation, the "Gombeen man," of whom I had heard so much at Gweedore.
But they are on the books of the 'Gombeen man'--Sweeney of Dungloe and Burtonport.
The arts as well as the crafts, the graces equally with the utilities must stand up in the marketplace and be judged by the gombeen men.
Ireland offers opposition in the person of the 'gombeen man.
But the gombeen man presented him with a bill for twenty-one shillings and three pence.
One day he and his father shopped at the gombeen store together.
Some had run so far behind that thegombeen man had served writs on them, obtained judgment against their holdings, and could evict them at pleasure.
There was doubt on the faces of those tied to the gombeen man.
Dungloe men wanted to fish, but the gombeen man would never lend money to promote industry.
His father had confided to him that they were in great debt to the gombeen man.
The business of the gombeen man is going, and one may well hope to see arise before long that thrift and energy characteristic of the peasant proprietor, whether in France, Belgium, or Lombardy.
Irish life--the gombeen man, whose usury used to mount up to thirty per cent.
I slackened and saw them drop into the road and there remain, mystified, no doubt, by the astonishing variety of scents, from goat to gombeen man, that presented themselves.
We passed Stephen Casey and the gombeen man cornering the disputed calves in the sympathetic accord that such an operation demands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gombeen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
