watch-fobbed

Updated: May 15, 2025

Although the gas was turned off in the directors' room, I could still see from where I sat the very mahogany table under which these same ruffle-shirted, watch-fobbed, snuff-taking old fellows tucked their legs when they decided on who should and who should not share the bank's confidence. And the side walls and surroundings were none the less shabby and quite as dilapidated.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero