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Josselyn says with much feeling: "I went a shore upon Noddles Island to Mr. Samuel Maverick, … the only hospitable man in the whole countrey."

From The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Adams, Brooks

A time job—viz., inserting, as per author's proof, 50 'hear hears' and 20 'great cheerings' in report of speech to be delivered by Alderman Noddles at the great meeting on the social system.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

Noddles of ministers, however, were in no way distracted but saw clearly that, if Americans could not agree on any plan of defense, there was no alternative but "an interposition of the authority of Parliament."

From The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England by Becker, Carl Lotus