I went up to a station, and there I got a job; Plunged in the store, and hooked it, with a very tidy lob.

But if some member of a fishing club In London or the provinces, renowned For prowess with the lob-worm or the grub, Should land a roach of more than half a pound, Then in the leading papers of the hub Full space for that achievement will be found, And clearest type and unaffected rapture Will signalize the epoch-making capture!

stiff, restringent^, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound^. ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; cabined cribbed confined [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.

But while I'm afloat, I'll stick to it that mine Beats yours into rope-yarn in spite of your bawling, Just as snuffy old Tiber is flogged by the brine; And he who the difference cannot discern Is a lob-sided lubber from bowsprit to stern.

The lob is a most important and useful stroke and should be constantly practised.

It is nearly always best to lob to your opponent's back-hand, since the majority of players are weaker there.

There are three kinds of lobs: (1) The high lob, sent well out of reach of your opponent's racket, but with the disadvantage of taking some time to reach the ground.

(2) The low lob, which only just passes over your opponent's racketa much more risky shot than the high lob, but with the advantage of falling much quicker.

(2) The low lob, which only just passes over your opponent's racketa much more risky shot than the high lob, but with the advantage of falling much quicker.

(3) The lob-volley is one of the prettiest strokes and a most effective one.

It should be a high lob.

To play a mixed double you must be able to lob.

A very good return of the opposing lady's service, when both men are at the net, is a lob back to the server.

It will be difficult for the server to return a good-length lob out of your partner's reach.

In 1889-90 this road was followed by Pevtsoff from Kothan to Lob-Nor at the foot of the Kuen Lun, which divides Chinese Turkestan from Tibet.

It is a hundred and fifty kilometres from Tcharkalyk station, in the middle of the desert, amid the plains which are traversed by a little stream which flows into the Lob Nor.

Before their eyes there stretches not the cultivated steppe of the Lob Nor region, but the Gobi, which is barren, desolate and gloomy, according to the reports of Grjimailo, Blanc and Martin.

The train halts at Lob Nor at four o'clock and departs at six.

From Lob Nor to Kara Nor there are three hundred and fifty kilometres to run, and between the lakes we will resume the interrupted marriage of Fulk Ephrinell and Horatia Bluett, if nothing occurs to again delay their happiness.

This lake, which is not as extensive as Lob Nor, absorbs the waters of the Soule Ho, coming down from the Nan Chan mountains.

[Forehand and backhand lob services.]).

Das Lob des Lebens.

Das Lob des Lebens.

I once observed a crop of burnet, in which Bromus secalius (Lob Grass) was growing, whose spike stood a considerable height above the crop, and several acres of which a boy or woman might have cut over in a short space of time: but it was not so: the grass seeds and burnet were suffered to ripen together, and no means could be devised to separate the two when threshed.

Grass, Lob - - - Bromus secalinus.