"Hobnob" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... around the correspondents, with whom a six hours' stop was sufficient to make them familiar. "Who is he?" they asked. "Is he a plutocrat?" "It's a Wall Street shark, sure." "Does Jimmy Grayson mean to hobnob with a man like that?" "Then we can't trust him either. He's going to be a monopolist, too, and his claiming to be champion of the ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... upon the sincerity of their mortality. The more unassumingly these reprobates live in their share of the common flesh, far below spiritual pretences, the more does my wayward mind tip the scales of unregenerate humour in their direction. My instincts hobnob with their dust. But do not infer that I have identified you with these undisciplined characters. When I was a child, out of the rancour of a well-tutored Southern imagination I honestly believed that every man the other side of Mason and Dixon's line had a blue complexion, thin ...
— The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More
... the average. But in striking contrast to Shakespere and to others, Middleton has no kind of poetical morality in the sense in which the term poetical justice is better known. He is not too careful that the rogues shall not have the best of it; he makes his most virtuous and his vilest characters hobnob together very contentedly; and he is, in short, though never brutal, like the post-Restoration school, never very delicate. The style, however, of these works of his did not easily admit of such delicacy, except in the infusion of a strong ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury
... same," Kelson retorted, "if you had to hobnob with a tiger. The Unknown always gives me the ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... personnel of the bunk house had changed almost completely. They were men whom he did not know, men who struck him as "hard-boiled," though he could not have explained just wherein they differed from the others. Sam Pretty Cow and Shorty he could hobnob with as of yore,—Sam in particular giving him much pleasure with his unbroken reserve, his unreadable Indian eyes and his wide-lipped grin. The others were like Duke, Tom and Al,—slightly aloof, a bit ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... people know only the Outside-Person part of me, and the Outside-Person part is stiff and old-fashioned, and self-conscious. You see it has been so many months since I have hobnobbed with Lilies-of-the-Field and with Solomons-in-all-their-Glory. And even when I did hobnob with them it was for such a little time, and it ended so heart-breakingly. But I am not going to talk of that, or I shall weep and wail again, and that wouldn't be fair ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey
... the "high table" with the reverend deans, and hobnob with professors.—Household Words, Am. ed., Vol. XI. ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall |
