But now you seem to be holding only a bob-tail.

He had been dreadfully scared at first, doubtless under the impression that the mate to the dead bob-cat had invaded the camp, intent on revenge.

He wore a plain bob-wig below a huge flat-brimmed hat, and big blue spectacles shaded his eyes.

They selected a pious gentleman, whose name I have forgotten, and we left St. Paul at four o'clock one winter morning, in a prairie schooner on bob-sleds, to ride to La Crosse.

Land birds from bob-whites to grackles.

"Well, things went as smooth and easy as bob-sledding until it came time for Loys to be moseying back to college again.

Young Ned Rutledge is a perfect bob-o-lincoln,a swallow, a sparrow, a peacock; excessively vain, excessively weak, and excessively variable and unsteady, jejune, inane, and puerile."

"We are buried to the bob-stays; and yet, there yon fellow lies, nothing plainer than when he first showed his studding-sails!"