Groby

Sexual hostility unleashed by the dissociation of your personality into 'Groby'-Courtenay identified your wife with a hate-and-fear object, the Consies.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

And 'Groby' carefully arranged things so that your Consie data is uncheckable and therefore unassailable.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

'Groby' arranged for you-the real you-to withhold the imaginary 'data' until the Consies would have had a chance to change all that.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

Courtenay was coming back and he knew it; 'Groby' felt himself being 'squeezed out.'

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

He also told the audience: 'By gosh, some of these European ones, they make the Irish look like complete amateurs and I would dread, I would dread, to see them in Groby.'

Pikeys/Gypsies would stab you as soon as look at you. FIDO The Dog 2009

Hundreds of local residents attended the meeting two months ago to discuss the proposed travellers' site near the picturesque village of Groby, Leicestershire....

Pikeys/Gypsies would stab you as soon as look at you. FIDO The Dog 2009

I first understood that grammar could actually be interesting when I read "Here Lies Miss Groby," his recollection of an English-composition teacher who drilled into her charges that metonymy means "Container for the Thing Contained," as in the phrase "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" -- "ears" is not meant literally; their hearing is.

Books on Language Michael Quinion 2009

I did not say that Christopher accepts Groby for himself.

The Plot Thickens Glassco, David 1980

He has fabricated the quarrel with Mark (the pretext being that Mark had believed Ruggles's slander of Christopher) so that he could refuse the family money, so that he would have no responsibility to Groby, so that he could live with Valentine.

The Plot Thickens Glassco, David 1980

"In The Last Post we see Christopher will accept the house at Groby and all its perquisites…."

The Plot Thickens Glassco, David 1980