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  • Absolutely anon, I had to read bobby's post twice.

    Bill Clinton Rips Obama In Charlie Rose Interview 2009

  • Then we'll walk to bobby's so u can surprise him. .chances are he wont be home. .but that's okay. .4 miles is no big deal what-so-ever! lol. i dont think so!! haha. good timez comin our way. all hell breaks loose when mel comes into town!! lmao

    boycrazy4428 Diary Entry boycrazy4428 2004

  • Wouldn't you rather be in front of your own fireside instead of risking double pneumonia and a clobbering from a bobby's truncheon? '

    A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

  • Among them was a man wearing a plastic London bobby's helmet and another who blew sporadically on a bugle.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • He opened his eyes and found himself staring up into a bobby's face.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • Then, despite the bobby's warnings, he turned painfully over, saw the open eyes of the mole man staring blankly into his.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • While you've been tittle-tattling I've been doing, -- listen to what this bobby's got to say. '

    The Beetle Richard Marsh

  • Still Dora had an irresistible conception of the pained disdain, the latent superciliousness, which would have sprung into full force in Fanny's dark eyes, if she had ever seen the once magnificent Cyril in the most careful modification of a _bobby's_ braided tunic and helmet.

    A Houseful of Girls Sarah Tytler 1870

  • It's strangely easy to picture him in one of those old-fashioned bobby's helmets, and even easier to picture it being knocked off his head by a guffawing village lout.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Michael Deacon 2012

  • "It was that step, however, which offended the bobby's modesty."

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 04 Eug��ne Sue 1830

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