nobby
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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
"Rather a nobby place," was Dickens' description of Broadstairs, but old friends remember young Heath as rather nobody.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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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
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"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 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 Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
Williams is "nobbiest" of third-story boys, bravest of Camanche warriors, but Williams doesn't dare refuse to go for that basket.
From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various
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
And besides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle.
From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Mark Twain