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On the return walk to Belvedere Castle, I followed a corkscrew route through the densely forested and nobby Ramble.

From Washington Post

He was Borrah Minevitch, famed as a U. S. comic who plays the harmonica, costumed usually in nobby grey trousers, a loud checked coat, a derby cocked impertinently to one side.

From Time Magazine Archive

Open golf championship was staged at nobby Newport in 1895; not until the 45th took place last week was America's No. 1 golfing event held south of the Mason-Dixon line.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Rather a nobby place," was Dickens' description of Broadstairs, but old friends remember young Heath as rather nobody.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hazel picked a nobby purplish starfish from the bottom of the pool and popped it into his nearly full gunny sack.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

"The toffs are toffier and the nobs are nobbier," said one of these well-informed sources with a wink and a mysterious hitch of a tweedy shoulder.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2012

There's no life is nobbier Than to be a rob-bier, In the gloomy, gloomy, gloomy wood.

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavour to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet. 

From Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Mark Twain

I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going.

From Roughing It, Part 5. by Mark Twain

Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was Barbara Frietchie.'

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain

What makes it worse,' she continued in the extremity of confidence, 'I heard those two cricketing men say just now, "She's the nobbiest girl on the boat."

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy