"Bobtail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not make a poet, nor poker a great pleader. And yet I have seen poets who relied on the potency of their breath, and lawyers who knew more of the habits of a bobtail flush than they ever did of the statutes in such case ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye
... For the bill here, it seems, is defrayed by the host— No pleasure! no leisure! no thought for my pains, 20 But to hear a vile jargon which addles my brains; A smatter and chatter, gleaned out of reviews, By the rag, tag, and bobtail, of those they call "Blues;" A rabble who know not——But soft, here they come! Would to God I were deaf! as ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... go! But you look out! You're all a set of radicals, anyhow! making equals of all the rag, tag, and bobtail about. Look at Claudia there! What would Judge Merlin say if he was to see his daughter with her arm ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... stage when it is difficult for a child to hold the thread of a narrative, and at this stage, along with simple stories of little ones like themselves, repetition or "accumulation" stories seem to give most pleasure. "Henny Penny" and "Billy Bobtail"—told by Jacobs as "How Jack went to seek his Fortune"—are prime favourites. Repetition of rhythmic phrases has a great attraction, as in "Three Little Pigs," with its delightful repetition of "Little pig, little pig, let me come in," "No, no, by the ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith
... wife an' my bobtail dog Start 'cross de creek on a hick'ry log. We all fall in an' git good wet, But I helt to my liddle brown jug, ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... were a mixed team, four of them unmistakable huskies, one with collie characteristics, one having Newfoundland blood (through many crosses), and one, the leader, having the look of something midway between a big powerful Airedale and an old English sheep-dog, including the bobtail. This leader, Bill, as he was called, had the air of a master-worker, and was the only member of the pack (except the wheeler) who did not snarl as Jan was ...
— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson
... a standing warning against spoiling one's patients. I wouldn't have them and their whole tag-rag and bobtail about ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... motley band came streaming into town. "Now tag, rag and bobtail carry a high hand." Bacon drew up a double line before the State House and demanded that some members of the Council come out to confer with him. When Colonel Spencer and Colonel Cole appeared he told them he had come for a commission. Then he said that the people would not submit to taxes to ...
— Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 • Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
... were angry, and Lincoln was furious; but Jake remarked: "Well, I guess that Bobtail came back and got ...
— Johnny Bear - And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted • E. T. Seton
... scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi[obs3]; trash; profanum vulgus[Lat], ignobile vulgus[Lat]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary[obs3], proletaire[obs3], roturier[obs3], Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier[Fr], Philistine, cockney; grisette[obs3], demimonde. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... laughed Croyden. "He has no recourse. In the words of the game, popular hereabout, he is playing a bobtail!" ...
— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott |
