There are pods, called Calabacillo, smooth and ovate like a calabash, and there are others, more rare, so "nobbly" that they are well-named "Alligator." ❋ Arthur William Knapp (N/A)
He wore what his tailor's advertisements would have called a "nobbly" suit of checked tweed and -- in defiance of popular prejudice -- a brown bowler hat. ❋ Unknown (1928)
I finished it off with a nice, nobbly crochet edging, because I figured A would enjoy sucking on it. ❋ Cazzab (2007)
Can you have that when the being you're being nobbly to want you to get out? ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)
We ate lamb, potatoes, and asparagus, and talked long over wine and coffee; and as I walked back to my apartment, I saw the trees getting nobbly with buds and the first daffodils dumbly lifting their heads in Prospect Park. ❋ Cheryl (2005)
Grey-green forest surrounded them, out of which nobbly hills rose like islands from a sea of trees. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Luke-John stretched his neck until the tendons stood out like strings, and massaged his nobbly larynx. ❋ Francis, Dick (1968)
Wry-Face lay this way, then that, but no matter what way he lay, he found a great lump just beneath him which was as hard as hard, and as nobbly as could be. ❋ Fanny E. Coe (N/A)
It began in the same way every year: the handle of her bedroom door being turned just loudly enough to wake her up, but softly enough not to count as waking her up on purpose; Toby glimmering like a moth in the dark doorway, clutching a nobbly Christmas stocking in one hand and holding up his pyjama trousers with the other. ❋ Unknown (1939)
It was one of those nobbly, chunky rolls with sharp corners, almost as deadly as a piece of shrapnel. ❋ Unknown (1928)
A potato, vast and nobbly, fell from his palsied hand. ❋ Unknown (1928)
The dogs ran loose, their feet being very sore from pulling on rough, nobbly ice. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
"To my mind an old apple tree is singularly picturesque," I began again, "nice nobbly branches, don't you know." ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Barnabas rose, and coming to the window, peered cautiously out, and there, standing before the barn surveying its dilapidation with round, approving eyes, his nobbly stick beneath his arm, his high-crowned, broad-brimmed hat upon his head, was Mr. Shrig. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
"This'll do!" he panted, swinging the nobbly stick in his hand, ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Once more the echoing passage roared with the din of conflict, as their assailants rushed again, were checked, smote and were smitten, and fell back howling before the thrust of the nobbly stick and the swing of the heavy bludgeon. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Yes, men of consequence they were, beyond a doubt, and Barnabas noticed that they also stared very often at a certain window a little further up the court and from it to a third man who limped along close behind them by means of a very nobbly stick; a shortish, broadish, mild-looking man whose face was hidden beneath the shadow of the broad-brimmed hat. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
