Even wet, the nobby leather made a sure grip for his fingers.

So far from being at a discount as to company, we are in fact what would be popularly called rather a nobby place.

Quite a nobby place it is, in fact .

Then she turned it over and stabbed another pin into the nobby reddish head.

It was the gayest outfit you ever see, for rich clothes and nobby style.

Most of the vampire families were highly nobby.

But we'll play Robin Hood - it's nobby fun.

'One of the nobby ones with a train and a padded bum.'

I'd get some nobby lady to front it and I'd be the bouncer and run the bar.

Is it Nobby with him?'

It's not just that it's Lady Devlin and nobby society.

I don't expect they want common folk like what we are comin' in with all those smart nobby people,' said Nanny.

I knew she could feel those nobby studs as they pressed and stimulated her own erect clitoris as well.

Are the classic cars driven by Christie's nobby sleuths for sale at your local Oldsmobile dealer?

Don't make sense, bein' nobby and poor.

Nobs ate nobby food, didn't they?

Hazel picked a nobby purplish starfish from the bottom of the pool and popped it into his nearly full gunny sack.

The 1870s saw major development, when "nobby" fleets from the Isle of Man came in search of mackerel.

The latter departed, and at one o'clock reappeared, stunningly arrayed in a dark-blue walking dress, with a nobby hat to match.

'It's the nobby name for Deadly Nightshade, Esme.' '

A forlorn, jailbird's face with a nobby forehead running back into a bald scalp, a crooked nose, and battered-looking cheekbones above which his eyes were fierce and watchful.

Then the old dame stood the figure up in a corner of her cottage and chuckled to behold its yellow semblance of a visage, with its nobby little nose thrust into the air.

And," Okker pointed a nobby finger at the In- vestigator, "you just forget trying to make it in your spacecraft between now and the time the rest of the storm hits Crown.

The task assumed a life of its own; breaking the pieces out of the balsa boards, assembling them on the diagram, occasionally sanding or trimming with the razor-sharp nobby knife before pinning them into place.

The first thing he saw was the concerned face of Nobby.

Nobby realized that a change had come over the group.

The problem was with his dog, Nobby, or whatever he called him.

Nobby was left alone at the top of the stairs.

Nobby looked up at the head again- It was wooden.

They throw you out for that sort of thing,' said Nobby.

He cried like a baby when Nobby tried to make him.

At the 2006 census, Nobby had a population of 391.

And suddenly Nobby found he had no control at all of his tongue.

Nobby might not have their good manners, but he always seemed to say just the right thing.

We'll see if Nobby goes out in his boat and waves.

'Nobby, come up to the University in five minutes, will you?

One of them had stepped to the bench to look down at Nobby.

Nobby choked on some smoke that went the wrong way.

There was a moment of hesitation, and then Nobby raised a hand.

He took another step back and almost tripped over Nobby.

Nobby had spent a lifetime in one uniform or another.

Nobby put up a hand to protect his face, as if he expected a blow.

If so, Nobby was in danger, for at any moment the men might wake up.

Because where Nobby went wrong was in thinking small.

Nobby became aware that he was not alone in the doorway.

Nobby saw that she was upset, and put his arm round her.

Nobby did not appear to have any biceps to speak of.

Nobby stared at her for a moment, and then started to sob.

"Look, it's like this every night in here," said Nobby.