Sentence examples for gamp from inspiring English sources

In Micawber the novel presents one of the "Dickens characters" whose imaginative potency extends far beyond the narratives in which they figure; Pickwick and Sam Weller, Mrs. Gamp and Mr. Pecksniff, and Scrooge are some others.

It is Dickens as soap, with the Three Cripples pub (from Oliver Twist) forming the traditional focal point of soap life, and Ebenezer Scrooge (from A Christmas Carol) and Mrs Gamp (from Martin Chuzzlewit) exchanging barbed pleasantries in the street outside.

Mrs Gamp (Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843 44) wilts on demand, "perform[ing] swoons of different sorts, upon a moderate notice, as Mr Mould did Funerals".

Though the forthcoming BBC series, Dickensian, may alter this, it's a fair bet that if you dropped into conversation that an acquaintance was "a perfect Pecksniff" or that someone had "a touch of Mrs Gamp" about them, you'd be met by a blank stare.

Bonnets became know as Dolly Vardens after a character in Barnaby Rudge; umbrellas as Gamps after Mrs Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit.

Dickens's Uncle Dick babbles about King Charles's severed head, while Mrs Gamp erects her infinitely extensible umbrella.

"Dickensian" characterization continues in the sharply defined and simplified grotesque or comic figures, such as Chadband in Bleak House or Mrs. Sparsit in Hard Times, but large-scale figures of this type are less frequent (the Gamps and Micawbers belong to the first half of his career).

They came not only to see the author himself but also the people who inhabited him — Scrooge and Pickwick, Micawber and Mrs. Gamp.

Though later Nell, watched over by Mrs Gamp, doesn't die.

Her love of Dickens is evident from the moment she steps on stage as Sarah Gamp, the drunken layer-out of corpses from Martin Chuzzlewit.

So Dickens fans are able to nod and smile when names like Sarah Gamp, Wackford Squeers and Samuel Weller come up.