"Nobby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... floor offices a distinguished and prosperous look. The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel businessmen in "nobby" suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups. Polished brass or nickel signs at the square stone entrances announced the firm and the nature of the business in rather neat and reserved terms. The entire metropolitan centre possessed ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser
... embarked on my career. I remember once lunching with rare Ben Jonson at the Mermaid Tavern—this would be back in Queen Elizabeth's time, when I was beginning to be known in the theatrical world—and seeing a young man with a nobby forehead and about three inches of beard doing himself well at a neighboring table at the expense of Burbage ...
— A Wodehouse Miscellany - Articles & Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... mellerdrammer or of the ubiquitous moving-picture reel. So much must at least be said for these great educators: they have broken the villain of his open-face attire; to-day he knows better, and when prowling to devour, disguises himself in the guileless if nobby "sack suit" of the ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... through with scarlet Lucy said "commence" yesterday, fever without being deaf. Jane said "gent," Walter said "Bully for you," and Alice said "nobby." And what is ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale
... accounts of "a rattling set-to between Nobby Buffer and Hammer Sykes," for which Tintinnabulum's ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede |
