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He threw it carelessly from him, and at the same time suffered the dismounted cavalier to rise, while he himself remounted his hobbler, and looked towards the rest of Oliver's party, who were now advancing.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

"I thank you, sir, I thank you," said the hobbler, with pleasant frankness.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George

And is there in no post a hobbler, Who should have been, by right, a cobbler?

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John

That afternoon I crocked my leg at footer and have been a hobbler ever since with first an elephantine calf and now a watery knee, which however, like the Tigris, gets less watery daily.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur