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Dobson   /dˈɑbsən/   Listen
Dobson

noun
1.
Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait.  Synonym: hellgrammiate.
2.
Large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait.  Synonyms: Corydalus cornutus, dobson fly, dobsonfly.



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"Dobson" Quotes from Famous Books



... though very interesting, to be quoted here, but the eminent names of the writers will be a proof of the importance attached to the subject. I find those of Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir John Gilbert, Watts, Holman Hunt, Samuel Palmer, Calderon, Wyld, Dobson, Davis, Storey, etc., etc., in the notes ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al

... made one April day A new thing in the rhyming way; Its turn was neat, its wit was clear, It wavered 'twixt a smile and tear. Then Momus gave a touch satiric, And it became a London Lyric.' AUSTIN DOBSON. ...
— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell

... bit, and there's honest folk bides in it, and some not so honest. They tell me ye're from South Africa. That's a long gait away, but I ken something aboot South Africa, for I had a cousin's son oot there for his lungs. He was in a shop in Main Street, Bloomfountain. They called him Peter Dobson. Ye would maybe mind ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

... dryly. "Old Dobson is harmless, all right, so far as hunting outlaws is concerned. But he doesn't cut much figure around here, one way or the other; no more than two or three other 'haw-haw' Englishmen who got commissions in the Force on the strength of their family ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... but they refused to take it, and began to crowd into the camp and handle their weapons. They were not going to be baulked of their prey. At the very moment when they were poising their spears, the relief party arrived. Four brave men — Captain Dobson of the Ariel, Dr. Vallack, Barrett a sailor, and the eager Jacky-Jacky — had forced their way through mangroves and hostile threatening natives to snatch them ...
— The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work • Ernest Favenc


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