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  • proper noun An English habitational surname for someone who lived in Weobley in Herefordshire.

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Examples

  • I thought it well worth while, and I took my regulation "Webley" -- a relic of my old Volunteer captaincy.

    The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

  • Co-wrote the Evelyn Evelyn graphic novel with Jason Webley, which will be published in December, with incredible artwork by Cynthia von Buhler

    Holly Cara Price: Amanda Palmer on Life, Art, Music, and Smashing Paradigms: So Much is Possible, and I Want to Do it All! Holly Cara Price 2010

  • Lewis's section went ashore to play their part in the Allied effort with little more than a motorbike, a Webley pistol and five rounds of ammunition each.

    Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis 2011

  • The word “steampunk” has been applied to this game – and I can kind of see that from the fanciful long rifles and automaton figures .. but really, my vision of steampunk involves stern Victorian Gentlemen with handlebar mustaches, calmly reloading their top-break Webley pistols and blazing away at hordes of incoming Red Martians whilst simultaneously exhorting trembling young Penelope to “buck up, dear, Stiff upper lip and all that, eh what?”

    Warmachine Mark II at HMGS Cold Wars Convention « Third Point of Singularity 2010

  • Paul Webley, head of the School of Oriental and African Studies, said a 40% cut to teaching budgets would disproportionately damage arts and humanities.

    David Willetts backs fees cap to stop Oxbridge subsidising the rest Jessica Shepherd 2010

  • Not only do you have an only slightly balding Sean Connery in a red loincloth (and not much else) brandishing what looks like a Webley but you have a flying giant stone head that vomits forth various munitions like a cat with a hairball.

    My Favorite Gun Movie 2008

  • The opening scene, where the English bodyguard coolly stands his ground and shoots down five attacking Berber horsemen with what looks like some sort of Webley Bulldog before running out of ammunition ( "Damn," was what he said when that happened) told you that you were in for a jolly good show.

    My Favorite Gun Movie 2008

  • He reached for his .38 standard Webley revolver and touched an empty space–like a war veteran fumbling for a phantom limb.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • The incomparable Jason Webley was, after all, only the support for the amazing Amanda Palmer.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • But if you haven't heard of Jason Webley, the second support act touring with her, man, you're missing something wonderful.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Hal Duncan 2008

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