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Usage examples of gaffer.

She felt leery of letting a male into her bedroom, but the gaffer seemed like someone she could beat eight ways to spring.

Whoever had opened the wall was not there when the gaffer unshielded the lantern.

Bryndel unfasten the straps and the gaffer extended his hand to help Bryndel down.

Bryndel accepted the gnarled old hand, discovering that the gaffer was surprisingly strong despite his obvious age.

Bryndel got to the beach, he extended the gaffer his hand in greeting.

It was not so much a matter of finding the gaffer as of letting him find her once he knew she was looking.

Rumor had it that Hinkty Molly and the gaffer had been more than friends and partners in the tavern.

As she had told the gaffer she lived to die, it was the way of her order.

He was affectionately known as the Gaffer from his working days as a ganger with the old LSER, now part of the nationalized railways.

The Gaffer listened to her with his mouth open, his knife and fork at a standstill.

The Gaffer chortled, Cassie prepared to put supper on the table, and Maureen replaced her photographs in the envelope.

Cassie accepted a sherry, Lewis a Coca-Cola, Maureen a daring port and lemon, the Gaffer half of old ale.

I positioned the clock on it so it was directly below the infrared sensor on the set and secured it in place with gaffer tape.

A bit more rooting about turned up a roll of gaffer tape in a kitchen drawer and I used it to make a parcel out of Vincey.

The Gaffer himself, like a king enthroned among his subjects, sat on a stool beside his doorway, smoking a pipe, and watching the world pass by.