"If you are minded to bolt," I said, "remember you have a charge of gunpowder lobbing below your chin.

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

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.

Volleying most judiciously, she would force Miss Sutton up to the net with a short drop stroke, and then, lobbing over her head nearly on to the base-line, take up a position at the net, winning the ace with a neat cross volley.

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 is much safer than lobbing over the man's headif at all short your ball will be instantly killedand it also gives your partner at the net plenty of time to anticipate any kind of return.

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

I am now quite envious of the accuracy of my lobbing in those days.

I mean real pictures of the real thingfellows knee-deep in mud, and a shell lobbing in, and such likereal dandy snaps.

"It will cave in the entrance completely; and then as soon as we get back, we'll give the gunners the tip, and leave them to keep on lobbing some shells in and breaking up any attempt to reopen the shaft and dig out the mining party.

'Now, yours, Dave,' said Ken, and without delay Dave lobbed his grenade, the fuse of which Ken had already lighted, into the pit.

'You're not thinking by any chance of lobbing shot into Maidos, are you?' asked Roy sarcastically.

He dropped a lucky one through a barn the same afternoon and lobbed a few wides over during the next night, but again nothing out of the ordinary.

I took up a flat stone, about six inches square, and lobbed it on his coil.

Das Lob des Lebens.

They begin by lobbing hand-grenades over the first traverse into the first bay.

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.