He never asked us to come and see him and we were really a little grateful-for I don't believe I should have had the nerve to go bouncing into the apartments of a national hero and hobnob with the mile-a-minute class.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
No. I go right in on the derrick floors and hobnob with the drillers, talk about their wives and their families, discuss croup and fishing jobs; sometimes they let me taste the sand and even show me the logs of their wells.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
"I don't like to leave it even to hobnob with crowned heads, and to take tea with dukes, earls, princes and kings, to say nothing of mere lords.
"A Fool There Was"
Porter Emerson Browne