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
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
"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
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
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
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
Wanted to know what was the use of being a nob if a fellow wasn’t the nobbiest sort of a nob.
Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was "Barbara Frietchie."
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
