" I didn't feel as if I wanted anything ever again, but I hurriedly gobbled some food, and we raced to the station, then sat in the train half an hour before it started.

Oh I's 'fraid the Linkum sojers will come take 'em, cause dey gobbles up ebery ting dey lays dere hans on, jis like geese.

Seethey have settled on the long grass by the fence and are gobbling seeds like everything," continued Rap in a whisper.

"The cheeky way you people of the States have of gobbling the Continent (in talk), just as though the British part of it wasn't the bigger half!"

When all was ready and just as I pressed the trigger of the 'flash,' there came in the cellar that dreadful, gobbling neighing that I had heard out in the Park.

"WELL, NOW, THIS IS TOO BAD!HERE'S THIS ROOSHAN FELLER BEEN AND GOBBLED UP ALL THE TURKEY!"

As I will gobble up this cold beef upon your table.

The imperious young gentleman who gobbled the biscuits (and indeed it was time to refresh himself, for he had breakfasted at Richmond full three hours before) was our young friend George Osborne.

"They've gobbled Boggs," he said, and the reserve rushed after him as he fled.

" "Spowsen he hides his track in that manner, he may take a notion to gobble up the little boy.

IV On the following Saturday morningrather more than a fortnight after her engagement to Edwin ClayhangerHilda came out of the kitchen of No. 59 Preston Street, and shut the door on a nauseating, malodorous mess of broken food and greasy plates, in the midst of which two servants were noisily gobbling down their late breakfast, and disputing.

I, my dearest child, can make that confession without any shame, for I have long since passed the age of self-conceit, although we still come across some old rascals who want to gobble up chickens, and forget that they have lost their teeth.

You, walk among the roses and verbenas, and gobble every creature threatening them.

THE GREEDY MAN The greedy man is he who sits And bites bits out of plates, Or else takes up an almanac And gobbles all the dates.

Dear B.B.To reply to you by return of post, I must gobble up my dinner, and dispatch this in propriâ Personâ to the office, to be in time.

An old husband leaves us his wealth by dying and a young one doesn't die until he's gobbled up our dowry.

He gobbles human flesh.

" "Are our points of view then all dictated by our selfish motives as those of your friend the spider, who has probably by this time gobbled my friend the greenfly?"

With such a prop as this ere little territory, where games of chance are "entered into accordin' to the act of Congress," to cote from a familiar passage in every printed copy of PUNCHINELLO, the Perfesser could have raised this little hemisfeer quicker than any of you chaps can gobble up a greenhorn.

" So the Wolf lifted the latch, and the door flew open; and without a word, he jumped on to the bed, and gobbled up the poor old lady.

he's going to gobble landand that's what we better do, and do it sudden.

" At half-past two o'clock (they must have gobbled their lunch), Mrs. Gurrage, Augustusyes, I must get accustomed to saying that odious nameAugustus and Miss Hoad drove up in the barouche, and got solemnly out and came up to the door which Hephzibah held open for them.

He was gobbling mincemeat, meat-bone, bread, cheese, and pork pie all at once, when he turned suddenly and said: "You're not a deceiving imp?

I turned down first one scheme and then another, as though they had been devised for the sole purpose of gobbling up my money.

The cat gobbled the morsel greedily, came closer and begged for more.