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  • Her own children, Charles and Theodore, commonly known as Bobbles and Ted, were as yet little more than babies.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 1908

  • He leaned over and said to his elbow-companion, "Bobbles":

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

  • He wrote the sketches with his friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson, known as "Bobbles", and they were published in the Daily Express and Vanity Fair before disappearing into publisher archives.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • (When she enters a room they play Bobbles, Bangles and Beads instead of Ruffles and Flourishes.)

    News Orgs Instantly Project Big Win For Hillary In West Virginia 2009

  • Bobbles ran into the outstretched fist with great enthusiasm at first, but after a moment's daze he dodged round and under that arm and devoted himself to playing a tattoo on Jaynes 'solar plexus.

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

  • And now the big man realized that on the swift interchange of blows Bobbles was quicker than he, and that he must keep him at a little distance.

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Jaynes was as much angered as surprised at receiving the first blow, and sailed in with a vengeance to pepper Bobbles; but he began to think that he was boxing with a grasshopper before long, for, wherever he struck, there Bobbles was not.

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Jaynes charged now after Bobbles like a Spanish bull; but the wiry

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Bobbles 'gloves had mottled him all up and down and around.

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Relying, then, on his greater reach, he went at Bobbles in a most exasperating manner, holding one long arm out straight, and fanning Bobbles with the other.

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

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