French premier in the 1800's

Usage examples of gambetta.

Leon Gambetta was as unprepossessing in person as he was in reputation—short, fat, bearded, of swarthy and oily complexion, looking very much what he was, the son of an immigrant Genoese grocer—and, for a time, Rouleau wondered how the man could nervously eye both of the far-apart balloons at once, until he realized that Gambetta's left eye was of glass, and disconcertingly independent of his good one.

He and Gambetta and Spuller had to clamber down, in full view of a crowd of amazed, admiring and amused peasants.

When the surrounding Prussians learned that one of the aérostats had carried Minister Gambetta safely out to the unoccupied provinces, they sent a hurried message to the gunworks at Essen in the Rhineland.

So far, it has carried various other important passengers besides the Minister Gambetta, and perhaps a million letters, newspapers, dispatches—and hundreds of pigeons, most of which have dutifully flown back bearing their cargoes of micro-messages.

Lucrezia Gambetta: Second governor general of Luna for the World Federation.

To drink I had got Sam to buy me two bottles of Bordeaux and two bottles of Sancerre from D'agneau et Fils in the Place Gambetta, Calais.

For when he was pressed to make good his charge and must rake up some excuse for it somehow, by a piece of luck he thinks of a morning when he saw Betty Harlowe in the street of Gambetta near to the shop of Jean Cladel.