| Meanwhile Jonathan Strange, a charming, wealthy gadabout, takes up magic on a whim after becoming bored with trying to write lyric poetry. |
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| Then Geoffrey of London, a young gadabout whose taste runs to older women, and who has various angry husbands and boyfriends on his trail. |
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| One of Bruichladdich's most valuable local assets is a burly and charismatic gadabout named James Brown, widely known as Farmer Brown. |
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| At age three Sturges was adopted by his gadabout mother's second husband, Solomon Sturges, a wealthy Chicagoan. |
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| And yet questions continue to arise, questions that conspire to keep even the most adventuresome gadabout from entering the enchanted world of mechanized canine conveyance. |
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| The old warhorse sensed the chipped concrete and flood-lights of home, it whinnied as it went, there was a flash of the old gadabout, a squirt of adrenaline. |
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| This cheerful gadabout is often to be found at gatherings of friends where his infectious good humour always stands out. |
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| On signing a contract, the ogre exchanges a day from his past for one in which he can revert to being a scary, unregenerate, child-free gadabout. |
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| Tapestry, worn to threads at the corners, part of a set that had gone with her parents many times abroad, on ships and trains, Turkish cabs, South American buses, in a former gadabout life. |
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