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...and remembering toys, they suddenly become very much alive. Toys I had loved as a little girl--my almost forgotten Tubby, who was the rabbit, and Old Dobbin, the Skin Horse, and the toys my children had loved. -- Margery Williams...

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... has yet been carved and dressed with the greatest care by the artist; the Dobbin Figure, though apparently clumsy, yet dances in a very amusing and n... ...self, “ ‘Gad, I’ll pop the question at V auxhall.” 41 Thackeray CHAPTER V Dobbin of Ours CUFF’S FIGHT WITH DOBBIN, and the unexpected issue of that c... ...ishtail’s famous school. The latter Y outh (who used to be called Heigh-ho Dobbin, Gee-ho Dobbin, and by many other names indicative of puerile contem... ...e estab- lishment), and other commodities. A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, hav- ing run into the town... ...wn upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s ... ...r’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Y oung Dobbin had no peace after that. The jokes were fright- ful, and merciless a... ...after that. The jokes were fright- ful, and merciless against him. “Hullo, Dobbin,” one wag would say, “here’s good news in the paper. Sugars is ris’,... ...sum—”If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much must Dobbin cost?” and a roar would follow from all the circle of young knaves, ... ...nd scorn of all real gentlemen. “Y our father’s only a merchant, Osborne,” Dobbin said in private to the little boy who had brought down the storm upo...

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... has yet been carved and dressed with the greatest care by the artist; the Dobbin Figure, though apparently clumsy, yet dances in a very amusing and n... ...self, “ ‘Gad, I’ll pop the question at V auxhall.” 41 Thackeray CHAPTER V Dobbin of Ours CUFF’S FIGHT WITH DOBBIN, and the unexpected issue of that c... ...ishtail’s famous school. The latter Y outh (who used to be called Heigh-ho Dobbin, Gee-ho Dobbin, and by many other names indicative of puerile contem... ...e estab- lishment), and other commodities. A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, hav- ing run into the town... ...wn upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s ... ...r’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Y oung Dobbin had no peace after that. The jokes were fright- ful, and merciless a... ...after that. The jokes were fright- ful, and merciless against him. “Hullo, Dobbin,” one wag would say, “here’s good news in the paper. Sugars is ris’,... ...sum—”If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much must Dobbin cost?” and a roar would follow from all the circle of young knaves, ... ...nd scorn of all real gentlemen. “Y our father’s only a merchant, Osborne,” Dobbin said in private to the little boy who had brought down the storm upo...

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.... “I don’t know the other,” he said, “but I should think you must be Major Dobbin.” Indeed it was our old friend. His voice trembled with plea- sure a... ... who called upon Georgy at his school in company with our old friend Major Dobbin. It was another old acquaintance returned to England, and at a time ... ...presence was likely to be of great com- fort to his relatives there. Major Dobbin having easily succeeded in getting leave from his good-natured comma... ...ongwood, when to these gentlemen and the young officers of the ship, Major Dobbin not being by, he described the whole battle of W aterloo and all but... ...onversations it was wonderful with what persever- ance and ingenuity Major Dobbin would manage to bring the talk round to the subject of Amelia and he... ...they are courting the females; and per- 83 Thackeray haps this rogue of a Dobbin was urged by a similar hypocrisy. The truth is, when Major Dobbin ca... ... the marriage, and by the way, it was curious, she wrote to say that Major Dobbin was going to be married, and hoped that HE would be happy.” What wer... ...ndeed; for, from that day, the very day that he changed the draught, Major Dobbin began to mend. And thus it was that deserving officer, Captain Kirk,... ...irk, was disappointed of his majority. After they passed St. Helena, Major Dobbin’s gaiety and strength was such as to astonish all his fellow passeng...

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... bride. George did the honours of the place with a princely air to Jos and Dobbin; and Amelia, for the first time, and with exceeding shyness and timi... ...f the entertainment, and the apartments in which it was given, alarmed Mr. Dobbin, who remonstrated after dinner, when Jos was asleep in the great cha... ...fellow, quite pleased with himself for his magnificence of spirit. Nor did Dobbin try and convince him that Amelia’s happiness was not centred in turt... ...his face once or twice, and went sadly down the great stair- case, Captain Dobbin after, who handed her into the vehicle, and saw it drive away to its... ... the hotel waiters, and promised to instruct him when they got further on. Dobbin walked home to his old quarters and the Slaugh- ters’, thinking very... ...re merry than he had been for many a day. She sate down at the piano which Dobbin had bought for her, and sang over all her father’s favourite old son... ...rst face which Amelia recognized was the friendly coun- tenance of Captain Dobbin, who had been pacing the street for an hour past in expectation of h... ..., looked so fresh and pretty, as fully to justify the Ensign’s compliment. Dobbin liked him for making it. As he stepped forward to help the lady out ... ...e, and a curtsey on her part; which finished the young Ensign on the spot. Dobbin took most kindly to Mr. Stubble from that day, and encouraged him to...

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...a beard hast thou got; 656 thou hast got more haire on thy chin, then Dobbin my 657 philhorse has on his taile. 658 Lan. It should ... ... philhorse has on his taile. 658 Lan. It should seeme then that Dobbins taile 659 growes backeward. I am sure he had more haire of his...

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..., she did not know how fast she was nearing trouble herself. The master, Mr. Dobbins, had reached middle age with an unsatisfied ambition. The darling... ...thin skinned and chicken hearted. Well, of course I ain’t going to tell old Dobbins on this little fool, because there’s other ways of getting even o... ...s other ways of getting even on her, that ain’t so mean; but what of it? Old Dobbins will ask who it was tore his book. Nobody’ll answer. Then he’ll d... ...ding in his throne, the air was drowsy with the hum of study. By and by, Mr. Dobbins straightened himself up, yawned, then un locked his desk, and r... ...t there were two among them that watched his movements with intent eyes. Mr. Dobbins fin gered his book absently for a while, then took it out and se... ... own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flaying that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with in difference the ... ... biggest boys, and young ladies of eighteen and twenty, escaped lashing. Mr. Dobbins’ lash ings were very vigorous ones, too; for although he carried...

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... if you’ll b’lieve me, he jes’ shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a dobbin’. Bless you, Mars Tom, dey don’t know nothin’.” Tom lost his tem...

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...ssure you, Mr. Titmarsh—there was the Lord Mayor’s own daughters; Alderman Dobbins’s gals; Sir Charles Hopper’s three, who have the great house in Bak...

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...t, from the Parliament lot that took off all our horses, ex- cept old grey Dobbin and the colt, and this beast may come in handy to draw the wood. So ...

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...and puddles, which sent up formidable splashings of mud under the stamp of Dobbin’s foot. A painter would, perhaps, have preferred her in those moment...

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...e act of presiding at a long table, and leading the chorus of Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho o...

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...A fam- ine ceasing, a rebellion crushed, they jog on as before, with their Dobbin trot and blinker confidence in “Saxon energy.” They should study the...

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.... GOVERNOR HICKS AND MAYOR BROWN. GENTLEMEN:—Y our letter by Messrs. Bond, Dobbin, and Brune is received. I tender you both my sincere thanks for your...

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... he be! what a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my fill horse has on his tail. LAUNCELOT: It should seem, then, t... ...Dobbin my fill horse has on his tail. LAUNCELOT: It should seem, then, that Dobbin’s tail grows backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail tha...

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...has seen her. In real life we find not only Petruchios, but Mantalinis and Dobbins who pursue women with appeals to their pity or jealousy or vanity, ...

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...onnet of the gray coat; and the hard featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furrow,...

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... bonnet of the gray coat; and the hard featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furro...

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... of your pulses. Interrogate them. They lump along like the old loblegs of Dobbin the horse; or do their business like cudgels of carpet-thwackers exp...