nobby

Example Sentences

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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

From the dowdy bingo parlors of Clapham Junction to the nobby casinos of Mayfair, the British now spin the wheels of chance to the rhythm of $15 billion a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"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