By the joviality of their insults Babbitt knew that he had been taken back to their hearts, and happily he rose. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1156/1156-h/1156-h.htm

In many places in the Dictionary, I find I have used the expression ‘the law of Hobson-Jobson.’ The name is an adaptation from the expression used by Col. Yule and Mr. Burnell as a name for their interesting Dictionary of Anglo-Indian words. The law is well recognised, though it has lacked a name, such as I now venture to give it.

Their reasoning, the judge wrote, was that it would be antinomic for the F.B.I., charged with fighting crime, to employ as an informer a murderer as vicious and prolific as Greg Scarpa.

The shells are strung today with nylon fishing line. Out of a gallon of shells, only about one third will be stringable.