Also at the top fold of his ears he has rather a pronounced blob of flesh.

Then right behind it would blossom a dainty, plumy little blob of innocent white, fit to make a pompon for the hat, and that, they told us, would be shrapnel.

Well, I was a melted blob of stone, and then I was crystallisednow

This blob, more prominent in some men than in others, is, I believe, a surviving relic of the sharp point which adorned the ears of our animal ancestors.

When covered with sea-water the ugly blobs of jelly open out like beautiful flowers.