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"Gob" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said, "my dear Pattieson, make too much use of the gob box; they patter too much (an elegant phraseology which Dick had learned while painting the scenes of an itinerant company of players); there is nothing in whole pages ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... been moved by my mother's grief, my false pride came to my assistance, and my first impulse was to chant a verse of some old tune, in a most doleful manner. "All right—all right," I then exclaimed, as I thrust half a doubled up muffin into my gob, but it was all chew, chew, and no swallow—not a morsel could I force down my parched throat, which tightened like ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... heard him mutter. "Now, be gob, what'll that felly be waantin'?" and then as the stranger drew nearer, "Who was it tould him I was here? Maybe some waan at ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor—Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog—and sing out, "Flies, Dan'l, flies!" and quicker'n you could wink, he'd spring straight up, and snake a fly off'n the counter there, and flop down on the floor again as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd been doin' any more'n any frog might do. You never see a frog so modest and straight-for'ard as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it come to fair and square ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various
... is clad with masonry and bristling with guns. It makes a striking and lively picture from whatsoever point you contemplate it. It is pushed out into the sea on the end of a flat, narrow strip of land, and is suggestive of a "gob" of mud on the end of a shingle. A few hundred yards of this flat ground at its base belongs to the English, and then, extending across the strip from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, a distance of a quarter of a mile, comes the "Neutral ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain |
Words linked to "Gob" : clod, hole, rima oris, cakehole, sea dog, U.K., chunk, bo'sun, able-bodied seaman, maw, clump, oral fissure, mariner, trap, old salt, Jack-tar, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, whaler, mouth, bosun, lump, boatswain, bargeman, jack, glob, ship's officer, sea lawyer, bargee, roustabout, ball, helmsman, Great Britain, seaman, yap, lighterman, UK, Britain, steersman, crewman, able seaman, oral cavity, pilot, bo's'n, seafarer, tar, sailor, deckhand, United Kingdom |
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