Noaks

Snooks — both Snooks and Noaks, dreadfully vulgar surnames though they be, are really worn forms of Sevenoaks.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

The Emperors, gazing up, saw her happy, and wondered; saw Noaks 'ring on her finger, and would fain have shaken their grey heads.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

He saw in Noaks his own foil and antithesis, and made a point of walking up the High with him at least once in every term.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

"Never mind them, Miss Dobson," cried Noaks, and at the sound of his voice Mrs. Batch rushed into the middle of the road, to gaze up.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

"Modest, like all heroes!" she cried, and, still kneeling, proceeded to sing his praises with a so infectious fervour that Noaks did begin to feel he had done a fine thing in not dying.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

The sight of Noaks in his room was as dismal a thing as could be.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

Noaks had now clambered out upon the window-sill, silencing, sickening, scattering like chaff the women beneath him.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

For her, when she fled the Broad, Noaks 'window had blotted out all else.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

Noaks may have regarded the Duke as a rather pathetic figure, on the whole.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

And thus she now saw Noaks 'conduct in a new light -- saw that he had but wished to prove his love, not at all to affront her.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914