Crossword-Solution: HOBBYHORSE 10 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

Once active members of real Society; no woman could go back to "society," any more than a roughrider could return to a hobbyhorse.

Would you not laugh to meet a great councillor of State in a flat cap, with his trunk hose, and a hobbyhorse cloak, his gloves under his girdle, and yond haberdasher in a velvet gown, furred with sables? There is a certain latitude in these things, by which we find the degrees.

Why should I slander her?’ ‘You see,’ observed Darya Mihailovna, ‘African Semenitch has got on his hobbyhorse, now he will not be off it to-night.’ ‘My hobby! But women have three at least, which they are never off, except, perhaps, when they’re asleep.’ ‘What three hobbies are those?’ ‘Reproof, reproach, recrimination.’ ‘Do you know, African Semenitch,’ began Darya Mihailovna, ‘you cannot be so bitter against women for nothing.

And therefore if they please, let them suppose I played at tables for my diversion, or if they had rather have it so, that I rode on a hobbyhorse.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Light be the turf on the breast of the Heaven-inspired poet who composed this glorious fragment! There is more of the fire of native genius in it than in half a dozen of modern English Bacchanalians! Now I am on my hobbyhorse, I cannot help inserting two other old stanzas, which please me mightily:-- Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, etc.