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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

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

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 Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Wanted to know what was the use of being a nob if a fellow wasn’t the nobbiest sort of a nob.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by George Horace Lorimer

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

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

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

Of the ladies who on this occasion took part, Some were dressed in the nobbiest style of the art; And the others, unmindful of fashion's decrees, Were attired to have much more comfort and ease.

From How She Felt in Her First Corset and Other Poems by Matt. W. Alderson

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