Gangs

Examples

• The first development was along the lines of this form of saw, and to increase its efficiency the saws were arranged in gangs, so as to make a number of cuts at one pass of the log. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Now gangs of such saws may be found in America and elsewhere, and circular saws have also been added. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If I make pretty handsomely on one or two next gangs, he thought, I reckon I'll stop off this yer; it's really getting dangerous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• For many such purposes gangs of captives were cheaper and far more controllable than levies of the king's own people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You can find Tammany duplicated wherever there is a social group to be governed--in trade unions, in clubs, in boys' gangs, in the Four Hundred, in the Socialist Party. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Plantation gangs began to oust the patch cultivation of the labourer-serf in the case of some staple products. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His extraordinarily retentive memory was shown in his easy acquisition of all the songs of the lumber gangs and canal men before he was five years old. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Still, there are other gangs of three besides the Randalls, or it may be some new gang of which the police have never heard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Different gangs and different ships. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Gangs of workmen, employed by pious persons, would be going about the country cutting this precious formula on cliff and stone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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