Never was a 'bobbery' more delightful than that which we have just succeeded in 'kicking up' all around about Boston Common. ❋ Various (N/A)
She was also full of sage counsel, advising marriage with a warm girl having "nice things at her -- nice lands and pigs and things" -- as a ready way to square the "bobbery" of thirty years ago at Ballawhaine. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
It makes me sick of myself, to make such a fash and bobbery over a rotten end of an old nursery yarn, not worth spitting on when done. ❋ Unknown (2005)
How she was the home of lies and flies, the grave of reputation, the refuge of the remittance man and the bad egg; the land of the unexpected pest, but never the unexpected blessing; of sunstroke and fever; scandals and broken careers; snobbery, bobbery, and highway robbery. ❋ Cynthia Stockley (N/A)
The stables were a great point, and the bobbery pack, which hunt pig for five months all through the winter, accounted in one season for something like nineteen full-grown boar, ten tuskers, and nine sows. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
The latter was the individual who fell, who played the copperhead in Eden, and has been kicking up such a bobbery ever since. ❋ Various (N/A)
But BULL has learned the wisdom of not kicking up a bobbery. ❋ Various (N/A)
Still, observation I was out to get, so, spreading my bobbery pack, I worked closer and closer. ❋ Various (N/A)
Well, Ben once got into a great frolic ashore, and kicked up such a bobbery that the watchman clapped him in limbo for the night; and the justice next morning gave him such a clapper-clawing with his tongue, and bore down upon him so hard with his ❋ American Tract Society (N/A)
He had talked to her during the whole of dinner the night before about jackal-hunting with a bobbery pack -- not at all an elevated mind. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
'They'd be going to Horning or Wroxham to raise a bobbery else. ❋ Ransome, Arthur (1934)
They just grazed past us, going very slow, and there was a devil of a bobbery. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)
By the way, I heard something yesterday of his kicking up a bobbery in the kitchen, and seeing a ghost, or something of that kind, himself. ❋ Dorothy Scarborough (1906)
"The wheat grows up with the tares, and the result is an everlasting bobbery." ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)
"Why did you want to kick up a bobbery, when everything was so nice and peaceful?" she said, reproachfully. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
"But Dolly," argued Alicia, "if you kick up a bobbery, and refuse to take this kind offer, then we'll all have to do the same, and you deprive us all of the pretty presents." ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
"I shall always kick up a bobbery," he returned, calmly, "when you put on that romantic, sentimental air." ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
Silver (my first charger) was very bobbery as usual, and it took a good half-hour to persuade him to enter his truck. ❋ Edward Gleichen (1900)
"Kicking up a great old bobbery, just as though they'd sighted us, and wanted to know -- I say, uncle Phaeton, how would it feel to get punched full of holes by a parcel of bow-arrows?" ❋ Unknown (1898)
Under either name, I fancy the thing-a-ma-jig would kick up a high old bobbery with a man's political economy should it chance to go bu'st right there! ❋ Unknown (1898)
"[fancy] a little bobbery to night jake"
" sure [jenny] but go [easy on me]" ❋ Grant2k6 (2007)
Bobbery is [hot]. ❋ Bobbery Is Hot (2019)
[otis] is gay [cos] he is dating [BOBBERY] ❋ Bobberyisaboy (2019)
