How To Use Gobbet In A Sentence
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Other Chinamen pulled them from the vat and thrust them under a thing like a chaff-cutter, which, descending, hewed them into unseemly red gobbets fit for the can.
American Notes
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His history, whilst highly selective with dubious conclusions, includes some fascinating gobbets.
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This has the advantage of presenting the texts in rather large chunks rather than the gobbets with which Walter et al. seek to satisfy us.
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As you can imagine, gentle readers, it wasn't just me who wanted more, but the troubled former starlet refused to address our questions as she rained down gobbets of her own flesh with an increasingly unsteady hand.
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So I stretched my arm out the open window, flicked the gobbet of lotion onto his windshield, and floored it.
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They spoke of a salmon or a gurnard as chined, a sole as loined, a haddock as sided, an eel as trousoned, a pike as splatted, and a trout as gobbeted.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
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The stodgy strands were long and thick and twisted, spotted with mobile gobbets of ketchup.
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He reasoned that standing naked over a hit stove forces you to cook the bacon slowly, over a low heat, so that it doesn't spit and spatter all over the place, speckling your delicate milky flesh with gobbets of hot grease.
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For Richardson, the self-made former apprentice boy, who later gave Clarissa the appearance of literariness by inserting gobbets from a dictionary of literary ‘beauties’, the charge was altogether more significant.
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Pinsky warns that poets might ‘strangle their work on gobbets of poetic diction’.
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Gleefully, my offspring grabs at the gobbets of uncooked lamb, squeaking and cheeping as she voraciously devours her meal in a matter or a few minutes.
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Sincere, intelligent and tossing out great gobbets of autodidact philosophy, he pressed on with his analysis of the ‘discourse problem’.
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And though ye cut them in never so many gobbets or parts, overthwart or endlong, evermore ye shall find in the midst the figure of the Holy Cross of our Lord
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Contributing to this foetor was the smell emanating from the table, whose surface was littered with the vestiges of various meals—the decaying fragments of a catfish; the partially gnawed disjecta membra of a chicken; a beef bone to which waxy gobbets of congealed fat continued to cling.
Nevermore
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If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devotion and circumspectness he wards and watcheth it: with what care he keeps it: how fervently he holds it: how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Each gobbet, as Oxford calls them, takes about 10 to 15 minutes to write, and generally it's quite a fun paper.
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Red gobbets of meat dripped from its claws and its talons, each as long as Jamie's arm, were stained with blood along the whole of their length.
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Hastily she bit gobbets loose and swallowed them, bolting down a dreadful and disgusting feast.
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Heather Clarke, a small gobbet of beef poked between her gloved finger and thumb, held out her arm.
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They are gobbets of evidence that should be useful to clinicians.
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He deals with it in a final chapter that takes up about 40 pages consisting of picture captions and gobbets.
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She then set about rubbing great gobbets of gunk into my hair and scalp.
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A great gobbet of burning goo fired out of the end, arced through the air and hit Dr Lawson squarely on the back.
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I'm sure I could even dig out a few gobbets of Scripture to support my pious stance.
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After revealing the gestation periods of cows and sheep, the third gobbet of knowledge it coughed up was that the chicken must have indeed preceded the egg.
Kitchen Apps: Farm to Fork
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Thus cutting the flesh of these animals into convenient pieces, or gobbets, they threw them into the fire and, half carbonadoed or roasted, they devoured them with incredible haste and appetite.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Tresses of their hair were plastered with gobbets of flesh on the ceilings.
Times, Sunday Times
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A troika of small boys, cocky and nervous proto-new Russians, lean over the rusting barbed wire and drool gobbets of spit onto his head.
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And of course that spells pork - big, juicy, fat gobbets of pork.
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Boxes on most pages give generous gobbets of fact about food words, food history and myths and misunderstandings of cooks gone by.
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So a conspiracy consisting of my brother Louis and Owen, our local chemist was entered into - Owen to supply the strychnine and Louis to procure from the butcher little gobbets of beef.
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It really was a massive rainstorm, with water falling out of the sky in great gobbets and splashing high into the air on impact.
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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She threw a gobbet of meatball at him.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had attempted to cut the Gordian knot by giving up the cleaning of his pipe, but this had resulted in the inhalation of indescribably repellent, ferociously bitter, and appallingly slimy gobbets of cold dottle.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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A mesmerizing combination of Dark Chocolate ganache, curry from the mysterious East, and gobbets of chili-laced mango.
Places You Haunt
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Gobbets of pinkish-grey matter exploded from the exit wound below the right shoulder blade.
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The exit polls, other postelection surveys and an array of combatants from both sides are full of gobbets of tasty fare.
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And though ye cut them in never so many gobbets or parts, overthwart or endlong, evermore ye shall find in the midst the figure of the Holy Cross of our Lord
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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In the 16th and 17th centuries it meant a lump or gobbet of food such as bread, cheese, or bacon.
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The second volley tore through the British ranks, ricocheting off guns and bone, spattering the beach with gobbets of flesh and brain as the redcoat charge was stopped dead in its tracks.
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Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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NASA has developed technology to produce small gobbets of edible meat protein in the laboratory - and who could forget the artificial meats produced by microbial fungi and used in so-called ‘vegetarian meat pies’?
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Those who reached out to help the more severely disabled drew back their hands only to find they were holding gobbets of charred flesh.
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A gobbet of warm gelatin landed on his legs, and an unbearably foul smell filtered through the air.
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The prudent deipnosophist mixes them into a gobbet with her mashed potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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They concentrated entirely on the very serious business of hoeing in to the ‘Chippies’ (French fries), and some battered gobbets of supposedly avian origin.
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It's too detailed to go into here, but one gobbet of fascinating info Peyotitlan served up was the apocryphal etymology of "gringo": "The US army wore green uniforms and when the locals saw them, simply said 'Green, go!' telling them to go away.
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‘Your creature,’ she said, pointing with her free hand still clutching a gobbet of meat.
