"Gob" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... GAB, or GOB. The mouth. Gift of the gab; a facility of speech, nimble tongued eloquence. To blow the ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... watched the unloading with eager and experienced eyes. As Barney put it, "Makes me feel like some shipwrecked gob on a desert island when he sees ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell
... is ane, callet Clement's Hob, Fra ilk puir wyfe reifis the wob, And all the lave, Quhatever they haife, The devil recave Thairfoir his gob. ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... "my dear Pattieson, make too much use of the gob box; they patter too much (an elegant phraseology which Dick had learned while painting the scenes of an itinerant company of players); there is nothing in whole pages but mere ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... a hunch, Leverage, that a great gob of sensational publicity, right now, will be of inestimable help. Meanwhile let's get busy before either the coroner or the ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
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