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Usage examples of dobie.

It belonged to Dobie Hix, who owned the neighboring farm to the west of them.

She sat up and tried to swallow the bitter disappointment when she recognized the rusty old pickup that belonged to Dobie Hix.

As the tractor lumbered to a halt, Abbie jumped off the back of the flatbed and charged around to the front to confront Dobie as he climbed out of the truck.

She would gladly have traded places and let Dobie finish cleaning the stalls.

He followed Dobie onto the veranda and stood beside him at the top of the steps.

Ben wondered if Dobie noticed that the pair was headed for the office annex, not the broodmare barns where the sick foal was.

Abbie glanced sharply at Dobie Hix as he walked around the hood of the rusted truck.

Abbie climbed out of the truck after MacCrea, then waited as Dobie loped across the farmyard to meet them.

Before Ben could get the door closed, Dobie stepped on the accelerator and the pickup shot forward, its spinning tires spending up a fresh storm of gravel.

The man left, but it was Dobie who came back with the blanket to cover the filly.

He came back with a course of action, admittedly radical, and sent Ben back to River Bend to fetch the farrier and Dobie to the welder in the machine shed with a hastily sketched diagram of the splint he wanted made.

Although she doubted that Dobie would go back on his word, she preferred not to take anything on trust.

The latter was just about the only thing anyone wanted to talk alwmt -- from Dobie and the owners of the Arabian horses she and Ben had under training, to Josie Phillips and the various service com panies they were dealing with in connection with the party.

When she saw Dobie inside, tinkering with some part on the tractor, she hesitated.

Finally, on the day before Christmas Eve, she convinced Dobie that marrying him would be the most wonderful present she could have.