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Now 48, a nobbily dressed bachelor with a flair for plaid suits, Glenn Martin lives in Washington with his mother.

From Time Magazine Archive

The detective himself was reticent when interviewed just before he caught his train, but, as he stood on the platform, nobbily dressed and twirling his walking stick, he was the picture of confidence.

From The Winning Clue by Hay, James

Tracey made a note of this, and is further on record as having observed that this stranger was rather better dressed than the run of drummers, if not so nobbily.

From The Fortune Hunter by Vance, Louis Joseph

It was Sunday afternoon, and on the pier were gathered one or two hundred Bermudians, half of them black, half of them white, and all of them nobbily dressed, as the poet says.

From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Twain, Mark