Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobbish
Literary usage of Hobbish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... Bentley was again appointed to preach the Boyle Lecture : * Misled by Dr
Monk, (who, though citing the passage from Bentley's Letten about tlie HobbisH, ..."
2. Essays and Marginalia by Hartley Coleridge (1851)
"But I believe his Toryism to have been a natural emanation of his hobbish
infidelity, though in this age when infidelity affects democracy, and blackguards ..."
3. The Book of Table-talk by Charles MacFarlane, James Robinson Planché (1836)
"... shall never be discouraged or broken betweene us. Now to the making of lawes
which wee have now * Divine right again ! Hal is quite Homeric and hobbish. ..."
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