thingumbobs

• “I was not over the bellies of better men, nor strutted athwart the quarter-deck in a laced doublet, and thingumbobs at the wrists.”

  The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

• “They contemplated the squiggles, quiggles, quids, thingumbobs, and doohickii in mystified silence.”

  A Canticle for Leibowitz

• “Bring her with you if you must; but don't you think that the nice, quiet country with the thingumbobs all in bloom would suit her best?”

  Tommy and Grizel

• “You are the -- the man who invents those delightful thingumbobs," she cried with an inspiration.”

  Tommy and Grizel

• “But what he liked best of all was to stop a newly-returned student in full view of the people, and talk learnedly of his courses -- dear me, ay -- of his courses, and his matriculations, and his lectures, and his graduations, and his thingumbobs.”

  The House with the Green Shutters

• “No, I see how it works; them' ere thingumbobs and gimcracks do it all. ”

  The Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies

• “We can and we must "run the machine" (to use another of their vulgar expressions) with them, until we get a chance to knock off the useless wheels and thingumbobs, and scour the whole concern, inside and out.”

  Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home

• “Monty-thingumbobs about but he's agoin 'off to day with that queer fish”

  Rivers of Ice

• “We can and we MUST "run the machine" (to use another of their vulgar expressions) with them, until we get a chance to knock off the useless wheels and thingumbobs, and scour the whole concern, inside and out.”

  Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

• “We managed matters very differently on board the old _Orion_, I can tell you, 'or, as he walks up and down the deck examining everything not in existence when he was last at sea, he exclaims, ` We'll change all this presently -- it doesn't come up to my notions; never saw thingumbobs fitted in this way before.”

  The Three Lieutenants

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