"Bobtail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ter run all night, Gwine ter run all day, I'll bet my money on de bobtail nag, Oh, who's gwine ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt
... up!" laughed Croyden. "He has no recourse. In the words of the game, popular hereabout, he is playing a bobtail!" ...
— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott
... large, shaggy, grey-blue bobtail bitch with a white collar. She was a clever, good all-round dog, but had originally been trained for the road, and one of the shepherd's stories about her relates of her intelligence in her own special ...
— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson
... to be any such among the rag-and-bobtail army of the new aspirant for the presidency of Colombia. At any rate, the missile whizzed and whined past the retreating ...
— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy
... anything on me! Her folks are common as mud, even if her husband and her dad are millionaires! I suppose you're trying to rub in your exalted social position! Well, let me tell you that your revered paternal ancestor, Henry T., doesn't even call it a 'Tux.'! He calls it a 'bobtail jacket for a ringtail monkey,' and you couldn't get him into ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
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