Even old well-fed dobbin occasionally rebels against his slavery, and released from his chains will lift his clumsy hoofs and kick, "disdainful of the dirty wheel."
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The house itself was painfully still; there was no sound but the faint noise made by Mrs. Moran as she put down her dobbin or her scissors.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
She had pointed out to Aunt Eunice, upon that last drive up-mountain, at least twenty-five tones of green, and had seized the reins suddenly to stop old dobbin that she might gaze her full upon a decrepit cedar-tree robed and garlanded with scarlet woodbine.
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond