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
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
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
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
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
"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
Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Mark Twain
I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going.
From Roughing It, Part 5. by Mark Twain
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
Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was "Barbara Frietchie."
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
Wanted to know what was the use of being a nob if a fellow wasn’t the nobbiest sort of a nob.
