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  • The population is largely nomadic, though certain tribes, generically known as Night Hobs, live among the forests.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tim Stretton 2009

  • The population is largely nomadic, though certain tribes, generically known as Night Hobs, live among the forests.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

  • 'Séance at Hobs Lane' moves beyond the initial reference to Quatermass to provide what is in effect a survey of Underground London in myth, fiction, history and rumour.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Haunting the ghost box, Infocult demands music 2007

  • Hobs "-- may show how the canon of epic was understood by poets who took things seriously;" for I will yield to their opinion, who permit not

    Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

  • Therewith more amicably, father and son fell to calculations of resources, which they kept up all through supper-time, and all the evening, till the names of Hobs, Wills, Dicks, and the like rang like

    Grisly Grisell Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Fancy a confident country-girl -- supreme in her own district over the Hobs and Hinnies thereabouts -- in conflict with the adroit man of the world, and you have the whole history of Margaret Cooper, and the secret of her misfortune.

    Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838

  • Founded in 1969, Hobs has 25 branches and 300 staff across the UK and Ireland.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • Liverpool reprographic firm Hobs extends its south west operation in takeover deal

    icLiverpool 2010

  • LIVERPOOL reprographics company Hobs has bought a Bristol company in a move that strengthens its South West presence.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • Hobs, which recently moved its headquarters from the Ropewalks to Liverpool's Castle

    icLiverpool 2010

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