"Bob up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enough to respect women. You are just starting in to promote this irrigation project and if you succeed you can't tell what the future will hold for you politically; this is just the sort of thing to bob up and down ...
— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart
... Finch-Fallowe is very well? We don't know him personally, but may we have the pleasure of seeing him bob up presently? ...
— Dear Brutus • J. M. Barrie
... doll's-house galley backwards, smiling. Now, it is no smiling matter to be jambed up against a hot stove on a hot day when the seas run high and the yacht digs her crescent nose into the blue and washes her own decks with Neptune's suds. But "Jimmy" will bob up again in due season with a plate of hot cakes or, perhaps, even cool cakes—and the smile. He has been smiling to the oven, which is inclined to gymnastics, only it is restrained by effectual bolts. "Jimmy" is a gymnast, and his free great-toes enable him to cook under circumstances ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... Nat. "Much better than Ducks; and how they bob up and down like little boats when ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... his other perfections, he was a consummate eavesdropper and spy. At the sound of the heavy plop alongside horror held me rooted to the spot; but Dominic stepped quietly to the rail and leaned over, waiting for his nephew's miserable head to bob up ...
— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad
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