gaddings

The nose's sudden disappearance, its subsequent gaddings about, its masqueradings as, firstly, a chinovnik and, secondly, itself -- all these have come of witchcraft practised either by you or by adepts in pursuits of a refinement equal to your own.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

I soon resumed my seclusions down in the woods, or by the creek, or gaddings about cities, and an occasional disquisition, as will be seen following.

Upon Our Own Land. Specimen Days 1892

That the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their husbands, -- looking after nobody's concerns but their own, -- eschewing all gossipings and morning gaddings, -- and carrying short tongues and long petticoats.

Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

That the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their husbands, -- looking after nobody's concerns but their own, -- eschewing all gossipings and morning gaddings, -- and carrying short tongues and long petticoats.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

That the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their husbands, -- looking after nobody's concerns but their own, -- eschewing all gossipings and morning gaddings, -- and carrying short tongues and long petticoats.

Images from Works of Charles D. Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

That the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their husbands, -- looking after nobody's concerns but their own, -- eschewing all gossipings and morning gaddings, -- and carrying short tongues and long petticoats.

Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

I soon resumed my seclusions down in the woods, or by the creek, or gaddings about cities, and an occasional disquisition, as will be seen following.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

I soon resumed my seclusions down in the woods, or by the creek, or gaddings about cities, and an occasional disquisition, as will be seen following.

Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

That the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their husbands -- looking after nobody's concerns but their own, eschewing all gossipings and morning gaddings, and carrying short tongues and long petticoats.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant, but that I was willing to make an end of my gaddings, and to set to my business for all the year again tomorrow.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668