"Tubby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the end!" Sir Mallaby suspended conversation while he addressed an imaginary ball with the mashie which he had taken out of his golf-bag. For this was the day when he went down to Walton Heath for his weekly foursome with three old friends. His tubby form was clad in tweed of a violent nature, with knickerbockers ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... uniform with a little gold and a white helmet, an uncommonly becoming dress though so simple; the Princess in the palest pink with a suggestion of darker pink showing through, and a deep rose between hat and hair. A tubby native in frock coat and brown face and little pink turban held a mushroom golden umbrella near the Prince and Princess, not over them, it really was not needed for there were clouds, and the light was just ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch
... Anterior Poliomyelitis.—In this condition the capacity of extending the fingers is deficient or absent. Recovery can be confidently predicted if, on still further flexing the fingers, they can be voluntarily extended towards the point from which they are flexed (Tubby and Jones). Considerable improvement may result from fixing the hand by means of a splint in the attitude of dorsal flexion. The splint is removed at frequent intervals to allow of massage and other treatment being carried out, and it has usually to be worn for a period of one ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... What's the odds? Twenty to one on Mahoney! Go it, Tubby! Christopher, but you'll never stay ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney
... to send you my address, as promised. Hope things are going well with you. I am staying on here for the present, as I have run up against Maisie Clare—you remember her, Tubby Clare's little widow? My son, she's got pots of money, and at the present moment things are looking promising! The mater would be pleased if I could manage to pull it off. By the way, I dare say Driver told you I met him the other day—he ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
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