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

Looking out of the car window, he watched the automobiles going by, gaunt roadsters with battered mudguards, smug sedans with shiny spokes, nobby runabouts, sumptuous limousines, frail flivvers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A forlorn, jailbird’s face with a nobby forehead running back into a bald scalp, a crooked nose and battered-looking cheekbones above which the eyes were fierce and watchful.

From "1984" by George Orwell