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nobby

[nob-ee] / ˈnɒb i /


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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

Further investigation showed that Samuel Insull had dyed his hair and mustache black, put on nobby Athenian clothes and walked out of his hotel unnoticed.

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

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

"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 Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

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

From Roughing It, Part 5. by Twain, Mark

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 Dickens, Charles

Likewise he'd bought an automobile, one of the nobbiest kind.

From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.

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 Hardy, Thomas

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

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark




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