Then a steward came and asked them if they wanted anything, and because they were miserable poltroons they smiled and said "No." They were secretly convinced that all the other private cabins, inhabited by titled persons and by financiers, were superior to their cabin, and that the captain of the steamer had Fobbed them off with an imitation of a real cabin.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
I Fobbed it and whipped up the old 'oss.
"My Strangest Case"
Guy Boothby
A thousand times she came tripping-always he Fobbed her off.
"Anthony Lyveden"
Dornford Yates