Bobs

If you want to selectively exclude a few bits and bobs from the cascade, what you're left with are 5 proteases, 4 of which are homologous. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There are many such "knacked bals" in Cornwall, with their iron "bobs" -- horizontal, depressed, or raised aloft, according to the attitude in which they expired -- holding forth similar firm, silent, and perpetual protests and cautions. ❋ Unknown (1859)

If you’ve only been on 1 roller coaster in your life and it was wooden (the raging wolf bobs is the name of the coaster I’m refering to if it helps). ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, bits and bobs is English Midlands dialect, while Partridge defines it as “miscellaneous small articles” (U.K., 1896), both of which appear to be drawing upon A Warwickshire Word-Book, which was compiled by G.F. Northall and published for the English Dialect Society in 1896. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inventor of PR, Edward Bernays, was an American who saw other Americans as "bobs" that floated on a "sea of emotions", that they were incapable of thinking in the sense of being a self-governing people, and needed to be psychologically and emotionally manipulated towards certain ends in order to create a healthy functioning society. ❋ Bill Kerr (2008)

And it just kind of bobs along in the river there. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You think you knock him down and he kind of bobs back up and finds different escape routes. ❋ Unknown (2001)

I don't mean betting on football pure and simple, for he only lays a few "bobs" on it, but on the latest quotations for the Derby, the St. Leger, the Waterloo Cup, or the ❋ David Drummond Bone (N/A)

Kate's "bobs" were the unfortunates she collected around her. ❋ Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1898)

A coarse wooden or heavy iron wire comb with great teeth, named a ripple-comb, was fastened on a plank; the stalks of flax were drawn through it with a quick stroke to break off the seed-bolles or "bobs," which fell on a sheet spread to catch them; these were saved for seed for the next crop, or for sale. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

They had been fishing again at the mill, and had a long talk with Dusty Bob, who had promised to make them some namesakes, namely "bobs" for eel-catching in the dam, and they were to be ready on the Wednesday evening following. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

These "bobs" are attached to pumps which work continually to keep the mines dry. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Other "bobs" standing idle tell of disappointed hopes and broken fortunes. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The most prominent objects elsewhere are masses of debris; huge pieces of worn-out machinery; tall chimneys and old engine-houses, with big ungainly beams, or "bobs," projecting from them. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The advice consists of this—Bobby Coleman’s name bobs up in so many of your letters that I assume he plays a big part in your life, no matter how seldom you see him. ❋ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1994)