By this time, also, he understood all the particulars as to how a shoe is made, and had indeed done a few stitches himself, a good deal of hammering both of leather and of hob-nails, and a little patching, at which last the smallness of his hands was an advantage.

Out in Virginia, no doubt, you'll soon be a great man, and sit in Council, and hob-nob with the Governor.

One of the changes is, that instead of the Chancellor meditating upon his dismissal from office, which his very virtues and stately dignity, and a weak king, and a more wicked and envious faction had brought about,we have well-living twos and fours hob-nobbing over Chateau-Margaux, or yielding to the delightful inspirations of Ay Champagne.

1st Q. 'hob-man blinde.']

There she would call in a loud voice, 'Hob-hole Hob!

Pater et mater, father and mother, Frater et soror, sister and brother, And my sweet Mary, not these drugs Do send me to the infernal bugs, But thy unkindness; so, adieu! Hob-goblins, now I come to you.

'You have, of course, informed him who your uncle is?' 'Me an' the colonel ha'ena done much hob-nobbin' as yet,' Macgregor said, smiling.

quoth Roger, wiping sweat from him, "yonder certes was Hob-gob!