Whereupon they entered the shop and seating themselves upon a couch resumed their occupations, the barber fanning himself while he smoked, his wife gumming her hair and coiling it into the semblance of a bird with outstretched wings.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
I can't take chances of gumming things up, but on the other hand, I want to get an 'in' with that gang if I can.
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans
She was always with the sick girl, for now her mother was nursed by her sister, and dame Hannah had obtained permission for her to work at home in gumming the papyrus-strips together.
"The Emperor, Part 2, Volume 9."
Georg Ebers