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Example sentences for "bobtail"

Lexicographically close words:
bobolinks; bobs; bobsled; bobstay; bobstays; bobtailed; bobwhite; bocher; bocht; bocks
  1. Soon Billy Bobtail and his friends came to a clearing--a place in the wood where the trees had all been cut away.

  2. So Billy Bobtail and his friends lived safely in the little house in the clearing for many years, and were very, very happy.

  3. When morning came and Billy Bobtail saw what a cozy house it was and that there was a fine garden too, he said, "This is my fortune.

  4. It looked so dark that Billy Bobtail almost felt afraid.

  5. Once upon a time a little boy named Billy Bobtail went to seek his fortune; and on the road he met a bull.

  6. When Billy Bobtail and his friends went inside the little house they found it very comfortable.

  7. Anyway I had to pay for the bobtail almost as if I were buying beefsteak by the hundredweight.

  8. An inspection of the bobtail did not bring much consolation to either Steve or Ned, for in spite of the smart way in which he had been docked, he was as ragged and mean-looking a brute as anyone could want to see.

  9. His eyes were glaring green, his ears were back, his small bobtail kept twitching from side to side, and his growls grew harder and hissier, as I neared him.

  10. Here he faced about at bay, growling furiously, thumping his little bobtail from side to side, and pretending he was going to spring on us.

  11. The portraits of Rag and Bobtail head the page.

  12. Rag thinking of his eyes, in a pair of tight boots, with Bobtail whispering: 'Say something clever, you stupid muff!

  13. Your friend Bobtail seems to be the only man who had no doubt of your talent,' writes my mother.

  14. Shows the way in which Rag tries to désillusioñer Carry on Bobtail, and in which Bobtail tries to ditto ditto on Rag Carry being on this side of the rivals is not represented.

  15. The unknown and the ragtag and bobtail of the city flung themselves on the iron grille of the choir, which they broke through, crying: "Long live the Beggar!

  16. Without the populace having any hand in it, the ragtag and bobtail of the strangers became bolder and shouted more and more.

  17. After that game all I could think of was two pairs, three of a kind, bobtail flushes, and so on.

  18. To-night a flush mantles your dark cheeks, but to-morrow it will be a bobtail flush.

  19. He has a very nice bobtail and a touching housekeeper who is deaf.

  20. There in the corner by the house that was just visible stood the owner playing with a dog, a bobtail too, which was the kind Pauline liked best.

  21. They asked the opinion of the others; so all in turn took sides either for Bobtail or for Falcon, some as experts, others as eyewitnesses.

  22. Even the faction of Bobtail ceased to be agitated by its long and weighty quarrel with the party of Falcon; the Notary and the Assessor went arm in arm to look for lead.

  23. Into this the hare fled; Bobtail and Falcon were each about to seize it, when the Judge checked the horsemen at the border of the field; they had to obey, although in great wrath.

  24. So they returned home, to proclaim at table that the quarrel between Bobtail and Falcon had been concluded.

  25. Right from under the horses a hare had darted out; first Bobtail and then Falcon started after it.

  26. Her airy fancies, her belief in God, her vagrant tenderness for the rag and bobtail of the earth were all part of that same thing.

  27. It was these rag and bobtail friends that poisoned everything.

  28. He made his way out to the dingy fields behind the biscuit factory, and watched the local rag and bobtail play football, lying hidden in the long grass under the wall so that they should not see him and fall upon him.

  29. Mr. Bobtail straightened up as he spoke, and tossed back his head.

  30. Mrs. Bobtail brought out her little gray silk bonnet, and Mr. Bobtail’s best birch cane.

  31. Then Mrs. Bunny caught sight of Mr. Bobtail in the corner.

  32. Mr. Bobtail darted off his chair at the same time, and rushed to a corner of the kitchen, where he stayed, shaking with fear.

  33. When they came near Bramble Hollow, Mr. and Mrs. Bobtail met some of their friends.

  34. Bring in the bobtail lion from Abyssinia.

  35. Everything would have turned out all right if the bobtail waif had not been a little given to investigation.

  36. You can write about the good times you and Bobtail and Billy have, playing in the woods," said Mother Rabbit.

  37. Bunny and Bobtail stopped eating, and went to see what had happened to Billy.

  38. Bunny and Bobtail and Billy hopped and skipped along.

  39. But Bobtail did not like to stay in the house all day and sleep.

  40. Then he puffed out his cheeks and blew on the oak leaf as Bobtail gave it a toss.

  41. Bobtail knew she had a secret, and so did Billy.

  42. And Bunny and Bobtail and Billy saw Mrs. Duck.

  43. So Billy stayed and ate the clover, but Bobtail and Bunny hopped off down the road.

  44. Bobtail heard Bunny call, and turned around to see what had happened.

  45. So Bobtail put his head out and then he hopped out the rest of the way.

  46. Up, up in the air flew the kite, and Bobtail hopped faster and faster over the ground.

  47. Bobtail tied the string to the short stem of the oak leaf.

  48. Hippity-hop went Bobtail down the path that led to the big oak tree.

  49. Bobtail sat up straight and held up his long ears.

  50. So Bunny Rabbit wrote the book about the good times he had with Bobtail and Billy, and all his other playmates.

  51. It left Bobtail rolling over and over in the snow.

  52. He comes not, from the garden, in; Nor he, nor little bobtail cur.

  53. There was only a "petty comity" at dinner, as Lady Bobtail said; and my Lord Crabs was placed betwigst the two Griffinses, being mighty ellygant and palite to both.

  54. My inquiries for refreshments are met with importunities of bin bacalem, from five hundred of the rag-tag and bobtail of the frontier, the rowdiest and most inconsiderate mob imaginable.

  55. The bobtail was back before the roping out of horses was completed.

  56. The bobtail rode off at a laughing gallop.

  57. For she certainly must be the biggest influence in gathering every rag, tag and bobtail child in the neighborhood.

  58. Uncle Rufus who, in a bobtail coat, white vest and spats, acted as butler, lengthened the table or shortened it, according to the number to be served.

  59. The day was now well advanced, and the harassed mother was growing impatient to reach the babe which she had left in one of the abandoned homes of Mrs. Bobtail Beaver.

  60. She saw Mrs. Bobtail and her old man cutting wood dangerously far from the water, but she could not stop and warn them because she had borrowed one of their deserted houses without their permission.

  61. At last she came to the old stream, and the crossing where the Bobtail Beaver had lived for as long as she knew anything about that country.

  62. I hold, as the sinful world would say, a bobtail flush.

  63. On further knowledge I have learned that their style and fashion is that of the jacket-sleeve and bobtail coat.

  64. The skipper of the Bobtail Nag at once offered to pay a handsome price if the man was brought on board, and at the cost of several dozen Birmingham steel axes and some tobacco poor Renton's release was effected.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bobtail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.