| He caught the bag a bit stiffly and this lump came up like a little gobstopper under his skin. |
| Richardson held out the ball, with outstanding generosity, like someone trying to placate a recalcitrant child with a gobstopper. |
| The pupils, from Lady Lumley's School, in Pickering, have all been disciplined for their part in the incident in which a gobstopper was thrown against a car windscreen. |
| Defeats are always difficult to swallow but this one must leave a sizeable lump akin to an everlasting gobstopper lodged in the throat of York City. |
| The cadences and rhymes of such poems linger, sweet and familiar as a well-sucked gobstopper, to be rolled round the mouth again and again as one grows up. |
| Everyone knows that you can twiddle and twiddle the handle, but unless you put a 20p coin in, you will not get a gobstopper. |
