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Examples
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Just this morning, Peter tore up Gordon's copy of Hobby-Horse Felchers Monthly and it took us three hours to persuade Gordon to come out of the lavatory.
Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Just this morning, Peter tore up Gordon's copy of Hobby-Horse Felchers Monthly and it took us three hours to persuade Gordon to come out of the lavatory.
Brown and Mandelson Rift Reported Dungeekin 2009
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Well -- it begins to seem to me that maybe Richard Minear's analysis is a bit of a Hobby-Horse.
Do Foxes Even Like Roger Sutton 2006
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When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion, — or, in other words, when his Hobby-Horse grows headstrong, — farewell cool reason and fair discretion!
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When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion, — or, in other words, when his Hobby-Horse grows headstrong, — farewell cool reason and fair discretion!
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Now the Hobby-Horse which my uncle Toby always rode upon, was in my opinion an Hobby-Horse well worth giving a description of, if it was only upon the score of his great singularity; — for you might have travelled from York to Dover, — from Dover to
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Hobby-Horse, (which is a secondary figure, and a kind of back-ground to the whole) give great force to the principal lights in your own figure, and make it come off wonderfully; — and besides, there is an air of originality in the tout ensemble.
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Alas! my uncle Toby! had not a weightier matter called forth all the ready eloquence of my father — how hadst thou then and thy poor Hobby-Horse too been insulted!
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Alas! my uncle Toby! had not a weightier matter called forth all the ready eloquence of my father — how hadst thou then and thy poor Hobby-Horse too been insulted!
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Hobby-Horse, with all his fraternity, at the Devil.
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