They remain cubbish and friendly now to a much later age than they did a few-score thousand years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
It is odd how much less cubbish the English boys are than the Scotch. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
Beside him Patrick seemed cubbish, though beside another he would not have appeared so. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
I'd wager that more gray might make him look a little less cubbish, a mite more authoritative. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
There was only young Clifton who could have come, and he was shy and cubbish, and would not, though requested by the Selkirk people. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
In the cab I was still somewhat drowsy, but gathered that my companions had left me, to dine and attend a public dance-hall with the cubbish art student. From Wordnik.com. [Ruggles of Red Gap] Reference
Kerneguy, from a cubbish lout of a raw Scotsman, seemed to have acquired at once all the grace and ease of motion and manner, which could be given by an acquaintance of the earliest and most familiar kind with the best company of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock] Reference
The honourable Master Kerneguy, from a cubbish lout of a raw Scotsman, seemed to have acquired at once all the grace and ease of motion and manner, which could be given by an acquaintance of the earliest and most familiar kind with the best company of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
This seemed to be the thought in Neewa's mind, for he headed straight up the valley until they came to an open fen where he proceeded to quest about for a dinner of roots and grass; and as he searched he grunted -- grunted in his old, companionable, cubbish way. From Wordnik.com. [Nomads of the North] Reference
It freshened yet and yet; the wrinkles crisped into whiteness on the black heavings; they grew into small surges with sharp cubbish snarlings preludious of the lion's voice; and by ten o'clock it was blowing in strong squalls, the seas rising, and the clouds sailing swiftly in smoke-coloured rags under the stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
"Before you babble cubbish objections, we will tell you some'thing else. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
At last he opened and read the note, a clumsy, cubbish attempt to explain his language in Sanders's room, and to say the package was absolutely nothing but some violets, to apologize for any and every annoyance he might have caused Mr. and Mrs. Davies, for whom he entertained nothing but sentiments of the most profound respect and esteem, and begging if ever they met again to be regarded as most sincerely their friend, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire] Reference
I can't remember who mentioned it off the top of my head (Mark or Fausto), but Mike is cubbish … and kinda cute in that "bad boy who's. From Wordnik.com. [Feast of Fun] Reference
He remained cubbish in his sufferings. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference
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