Pale, why that girl was so white that her number eighteen looked like big gobs of red paint on each cheek.

Gobs of oatmeal colored investment fell away.

As Barney put it, "Makes me feel like some shipwrecked gob on a desert island when he sees a launch coming ashore.

"Propeller's still there," breathed one of the gobs in relief.

The night was dark, but self-preservation maks nae gobs at dangers; so on she went, till in the grey morning she made up to the Glasgow carrier, wha agreed to gie her a cast even to the end o' his journey.

"Money in great gobs like that ain't much use to me," he demurred.

"The old dame, I could see, was beginnin' to get weak in the knees and was walkin' about as unsteady as the three gobs behind us.