Pobble

I can take it; but you, Pobble, you are at an age when it might be dangerous.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

From this disaster was derived at a later date the sobriquet “Pobble.”

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

It had begun as nursery clowning for the diversion of Barbara; a parody of Sir Joseph Mannering; darling, crusty old Pobble performing the part expected of him; and now the parody had become the persona.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flaninian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1980

The Pobble, it may be remembered, went fishing in the Bristol Channel:

Collected Essays 1900

While the Pobble was in the water some unidentified creatures came and ate his toes off, and when he got home his aunt remarked:

Collected Essays 1900

“The Pobble Who Has No Toes” is haunted by the ghost of logic, and I think it is the element of sense in it that makes it funny.

Collected Essays 1900

The author of such literary classics as “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” and “The Pobble Who Has No Toes”?

Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

We shall meet no longer those delicious monsters that might have talked in the same wild club with the Snark and the Jabberwock or the Pobble or the Dong with the Luminous Nose; the father who can't make head or tail of the mother, but thoroughly understands the child she will some day bear; the lawyer who has to run after his own laws almost as fast as the criminals run away from them; the two mad doctors who might discuss for a million years which of them has the right to lock up the other; the grammarian who clings convulsively to the Passive Mood, and says it is the duty of something to get itself done without any human assistance; the man who would marry giants to giants until the back breaks, as children pile brick upon brick for the pleasure of seeing the staggering tower tumble down; and, above all, the superb man of science who wants you to pay him and crown him because he has so far found out nothing.

Eugenics and Other Evils 1905

In “The Pobble Who Has No Toes,” the Pobble’s Aunt Jobiska has a runcible cat w/crimson whiskers.

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