toby
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The single collection also included a glass bust, a Coalport vase featuring Churchill's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace and Royal Doulton toby jugs.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
Photograph: toby farrow @ farrows creative Who are they?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
The toby is now a queer game; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of acting.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
She wore a plainly-made green dress, with a toby frill; and a large silver cross dangled on her flat bosom.
From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus
TERENCE: I'll give you lurk, my girl, look at the egg on my toby!
From Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts by Williams, Emlyn
English tobies are sometimes classified as young and old tobies.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.
There is a smoothness of texture and finish about the work which marks it as distinct from the English tobies, which unfortunately frequently lacked these desirable qualities.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.
Early as it was, crowds of American, English, and Continental tourists were abroad, their gleaming white drill attire and tobies and helmets, conspicuous among the grander colour of the natives.
From The Mark of the Beast by Watson, Sidney
Tobies are broadly classed as Staffordshire, and while this is probably true of a large portion, Dutch and German tobies as well as French ones are not uncommon.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.
