foot-wobblers

Updated: May 7, 2025

You, sir, have served in the dragoons? Waverley was taken so much at unawares that he acquiesced. 'O, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them. What regiment, pray? Here was a delightful question.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 2

You, sir, have served in the dragoons? Waverley was taken so much at unawares, that he acquiesced. 'Oh, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them. What regiment, pray? Here was a delightful question.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since

You, sir, have served in the dragoons? Waverley was taken so much at unawares that he acquiesced. 'O, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them. What regiment, pray? Here was a delightful question.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Complete

You, sir, have served in the dragoons? Waverley was taken so much at unawares that he acquiesced. 'O, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them. What regiment, pray? Here was a delightful question.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley