The next fall was a critical time with the Eta Bita Pie-Fly Gam-Sigh Whoopsilon combination, because we had graduated a large number of men and we had to pull down the fall elections with a small voting strength.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
In the whale-fisheries, no doubt, he has more than enough of excitement, but after a time he gets used to this, and begins to long for a little variety-and of all the pleasures that fall to his lot, that which delights him most is to have a Gam with another ship.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne
There is this difference, however, between a Gam at sea and a party on land, that your friends on the ocean are men whom you perhaps never saw before, and whom you will likely never meet again.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne