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bobberies

  • plural
    of bobbery.
    bobbery
    noun
    a disturbance; brawl.

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You say,—"We 'd ha' scared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these"?

From The Biglow Papers by Thomas Hughes

You say,—"We'd ha' scared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these"?

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

You say, 'We'd ha' seared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these'?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

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