| It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list. |
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| Now, in theory at least, children could buy unlimited quantities of Spangles, gobstoppers and sweet cigarettes. |
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| That did not stop us from going in for our Uncle Joe's mintballs, liquorice shoelaces and gobstoppers, but I was always glad to get out. |
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| They have their own lexicon of heady-scented concoctions like chews and gobstoppers, Flying Saucers and Black Jacks. |
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| It was hard work, I was getting crotchety, and tonight the blisters on my calves are as big as gobstoppers. |
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| I used to love the penny tray which was full of gobstoppers, bubblies, Spangles and Jelly Tots. |
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| And he describes how a gifted innovator can produce entirely new products, such as cavity-filling caramels and everlasting gobstoppers. |
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| On the one hand the child Karl recounts a world of Barret's Sherbet Fountains, Black Jacks and gobstoppers, a child's world of powerful sensations and distinctive smells. |
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| Bruisers, Astro Belts and gobstoppers all hint at the ranks of jars in proper sweet shops and the ranks of boys fighting it out in schools across the country. |
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| The dogs barked and strained at the end of their chains, wide brown collars cutting into jugulars, eyes, savage and bloodshot, bulging like gobstoppers. |
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| How we ever scraped the money together to buy gobstoppers and comics after all this outlay of our precious resources was down to odd jobs and paper rounds. |
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| A favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the two World Wars, Dahl would later refer to gobstoppers in his literary creation, Everlasting Gobstopper. |
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