Gather your little nobs quickly after the blossoms are off, put them in cold water and salt three days, shifting them once a day; then make a pickle for them (but don't boil them at all) of some white wine, and some white wine vinegar, shalot, horse-radish, whole pepper and salt, and a blade or two of mace; then put in your seeds, and stop 'em close up.

The pincers of the lobster's large claws are furnished with nobs, and those of the other, are always serrated.

It's a charity concert got up by the big nobs of the Stock Exchange, and there'll be no end of swells there.

"After you and the rest of the gang did the shoot the chutes under the table at the wedding breakfast me and his nobs grabbed our make-up boxes and took it on the lope for the ferry station.

"Snobs," and its antithesis, "nobs," arose among the internal fractions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later.

I was kind of plannin' to be a swell, and hang out at the Waldorf-Astoria, to see the nobs at home.

None of your "kitchen lancers" for us hamlet folk; we leave that kind of thing to the swells and nobs.

The nobs and the mob.

What is the favourite occupation of the nobs?

Recognising other nobs.

Seeing who the other nobs have got with them.

Identifying nobs and saying how disappointed they are with their appearance.

"Very well," he continued, "the next interval will be wholly spent in the exciting and delightful task of identifying the nobs, in which the nobs themselves will take a part.

"Very well," he continued, "the next interval will be wholly spent in the exciting and delightful task of identifying the nobs, in which the nobs themselves will take a part.

And if there is still a third interval it will be equally amusingly filled by conversation as to the pasts or costumes of the more famous of the female nobs who are presentan interchange of opinion as to the lowness of their necks, conjectures as to the genuineness of their hair, and so forth.

and if the nobs don't tumble to it the snobs will, and they're numerically strong enough to keep any play running.

" "You had better go to the nobs, and not talk to me.

The 'nobs,' as you call them, dare not be seen in this matter; they will pocket the chestnuts, but they will get some cat's-paw to rake them out of the ashes."

But they of Tag and of Rag that had been cast out were utterly forgotten; so that they were fain to cry aloud, saying, 'How long, O ye honest and upright in heart, shall Snobs and Nobs be rulers over us, seeing that they are but men like unto us, though they imagine us in their hearts to be otherwise?' "22.

The BRITISH ASSOCIATIONlike Leviathan worshipped by Hobbes, The incarnation of wisdom built up of our witless nobs; Which will carry on endless discussion till I, and probably you, Have melted in infinite azureand, in short, till all is blue.

Ca'endish, or Howard, or Seymour, or some of those great nobs, Griffin, I'll engage!

There ain't nothink the nobs is fair nuts on but wot these 'ere bellerers ban.

Monster huge, hydro-cephalous, Haunting our city of blunders and jobs, Born, it would seem, to bewilder and baffle us, Who'll give you "one" for your numerous nobs.

is 'Old Nobs,' the Regent 'Prinney,'

It is rather a swell neighbourhood; and if we can't get in with the nobs, depend upon it we will never take up with any society that is decidedly snobby.