I went out and bought a new brassie to replace the one destroyed by the experimenting Rocksworth youth, and before I got through with it had a new putter, a niblick and a spoon, neither of which I needed for the excellent reason that I already possessed a half dozen of each.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
Meanwhile, Mr. Brewster was performing prodigies with a niblick which he had extracted, at full run, from a bag opportunely resting against the hat-rack.
"The Unspeakable Perk"
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Of course, strictly speaking, I ought to have used a niblick, but-" "Do you mean to say, Reggie, that, with such an excellent opportunity, you did not ask Maud to marry you?"
"A Damsel in Distress"
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse