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  • Dust down the Hobby Horse, set up the maypole, deck the halls with boughs of holly and laurel, make a shedload of sandwiches and pork pies, get those barrels of homebrew from the cellar, and pray perform with me the Ancient Vogue Of Greeting found on a DVD discovered in the long barrow burial of a Saxon king for jerrylentz is among us.

    May 24th, 2009 jerrylentz 2009

  • The Hobby Horse song, as rendered at Padstow, was probably only a variant of verses common elsewhere, but local and topical allusions were freely introduced, and stanzas were addressed to special personages.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Maid Marian, with the fool and Hobby Horse, were, doubtless, enacted to the jingling of morris-dancers and other profanities.

    Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Various

  • The reference to "Un Ursula Bird" in the second verse of the Day Song has a traditional reference to an old dame who, it is said, led a party of Cornish women in red cloaks, headed by the Hobby Horse, in procession round the cliffs in days gone by and so frightened away a hostile French ship, whose captain mistook the women for soldiers.

    Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway Various

  • The special survival here is of the Hobby Horse, that once played so prominent a part in these boisterous masquerades, but such life as it still enjoys at

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Macmurdo's house in Fitzroy Street in the days of the Century Guild and its paper '_The Hobby Horse_.'

    Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions Frank Harris 1893

  • I have no copy of a Christmas Play in which the Hobby Horse appears.

    The Peace Egg and Other tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • Oh my Hobby Horse, and my little Horse: I want you both for my Health.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 February 1795 1795

  • These are the terrible trials that beset Esben and the Witch tonight at The Hobby Horse, one of the recent boho haunts that's responsible for the joojing-up of Kingsland Road.

    The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010

  • These are the terrible trials that beset Esben and the Witch tonight at The Hobby Horse, one of the recent boho haunts that's responsible for the joojing-up of Kingsland Road.

    The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010

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