How To Use Nobble In A Sentence
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The trial was stopped before Christmas after allegations of attempts to nobble the jury.
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When the team of waiting staff delivered the last of the meals and wished us bon appétit, I nobbled the waiter nearest me.
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The suspicion is that the prosecutor has, for reasons which will become evident below, been nobbled by powers with an interest in the continued survival as President of Paul Kagame.
Archive 2008-02-24
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The trial was stopped before Christmas after allegations of attempts to nobble the jury.
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Overcrowded classrooms and the challenges of accommodating myriad different languages will nobble attempts to drive up standards.
The Sun
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The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled.
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But then, when the official part was over, I was nobbled by a man in the English Department.
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So I will set out our reasoning and to try to convince the MA's readers that we have not been "nobbled" by the pubcos into backing down - far from it!
Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser
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He nobbled her in the corridor to sign the invoice.
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They nobbled two children as hostages in addition.
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There are three counts of perverting the course of justice where, in colloquial language, you tried to nobble the prosecution witnesses before the authorities got to them.
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Many people, and I have talked to a large number, mainly women, in this category of being the second-income earner, are desperately keen to get back into the workforce, but are nobbled by the high cost of childcare.
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The board feel, to put it mildly, that they have been nobbled.
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Maybe this guy from Gweedore knew all about it and threatened to blow the whistle, or blew it, until he was nobbled by Rinn senior and the priests.
The Priest
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` ` I trow, '' said Peter Lanaret, ` ` I know the reason of the noble lord's absence; for when that mooncalf, Gregory, hallooed the dogs upon the knobbler, and galloped like a green hilding, as he is, after them, I saw the
The Waverley
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The thief was nobbled in the act.
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While dismissing the notion of trying to nobble his rival in the ensuing training sessions, he admitted it had been an unusual mix of emotions.
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So long was the chase that, when the greyhounds pulled down the knobbler, we were out of hearing of your bugles; and having rewarded and coupled the dogs, I gave them to be led by the jester, and we wandered in quest of our company, whom it would seem the sport had led in a different direction.
Waverley — Complete
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I was in the middle of ordering a very expensive round of gins and tonics when I was nobbled by one of the wedding guests at the bar.
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So long was the chase that when the greyhounds pulled down the knobbler, we were out of hearing of your bugles; and having rewarded and coupled the dogs, I gave them to be led by the jester, and we wandered in quest of our company, whom, it would seem, the sport had led in a different direction.
Waverley
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I've noticed a knobble of bone at the base of my breastbone.
The Sun
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You need some big dudes in a team these days to nobble the opposition with no mercy.
The Sun
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One of my main correspondents in the nobble is a boy of 11 at the beginning of the book -- by the end he has turned 14.
SeeLight:
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Clarke uses a tactic that I'm using in da nobble, which is putting some essential information into the footnotes.
SeeLight:
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It would be neatly symmetrical if he were recalled for Saturday, for it was at the Millennium stadium six weeks ago that he was in such blistering form for Munster before being nobbled.
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Plus, the reason for the madness in magic is different in Nobble Jr.
In Which I Out Myself As A Thief
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Keystone Cop and PC actions are entirely consistent with a force that has been nobbled by the Stasi State. on November 29, 2008 at 5: 32 pm Rab C. Nesbitt
Be afraid, be very afraid……. actually, don’t be. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Meaning that I once heard a very great spycatcher say that, if you wanted to wear a moleskin jacket, you should look for a time when your target could have been nobbled.
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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We are concerned to make sure that people do not nobble juries - that juries do not have a rogue element that will not be convinced either way and simply not look at the issues.
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He nobbled her in the corridor to sign the invoice.
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We may sometimes unwittingly be nobbled by anti-war campaigners.
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These knobbles look like individual Yorkshire puddings, or popovers as they would say here, that have only risen on one side, and are strapped onto the middle of two sweet pea stakes.
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Soon after, Karagounis knobbles Etxeberria and will miss their final game with a yellow of his own.
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If they knew he'd been "nobbled," they'd greatly rejoice;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892
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The jury had been nobbled and the case had to be reheard.
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There was the creamy bowl of a skull, rags bundling nobbled sticks together, shrouding the clawed fingers of a ribcage in a grey shirt and sweater.
Acceptance
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(BTW, did I never mention that da nobble is called "Chinaman Treetops"?
Orifice Supplies
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A local magnate, the head of some great family, a peer of old descent, was often thus "nobbled" -- to use a modern colloquialism -- and was allowed to make as many freemen as he pleased and to take whatever part he would in the control of municipal affairs.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
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The trial was stopped before Christmas after allegations of attempts to nobble the jury.
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Drawslot; ` ` here have I been telling him, that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has halloed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler!
The Waverley
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Not only have they revolted against the attempts by the whips to nobble select committees, they're starting to talk out of turn in Westminster.
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nobble the race horses
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The prisons are packed and new ones being built as fast as possible, the Wood Commission reforms have been rolled back and the Ombudsman and Police Integrity Commission nobbled.
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Overcrowded classrooms and the challenges of accommodating myriad different languages will nobble attempts to drive up standards.
The Sun
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Juror was 'nobbled' in Liverpool gangster Curtis Warren trial, Court of Appeal hears next
IcLiverpool
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'May the foul fiend, booted and spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a scythe at his girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling him that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler!
Waverley — Volume 1
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Sadly, one suspects, neither they nor al-Fayed will be put off: instead we shall probably be treated to another ten or twenty years of yet more ludicrous theories about the crash and how the Inquest was nobbled etc. etc., each theory yet more wacko than the last.
You're Paying For This, So Enjoy It!
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On the other hand, perhaps they saw the law on presidential elections as a chance to nobble their rivals before they even got to the start line.
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But it is much harder to nobble 12 independent jurors than it is to bribe or intimidate one judge.
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Hamstrung by his uncle, he was having to go through an exasperating charade in order to nobble the project.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!):
Writer's Block
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I have 24 days, starting today, and 25 new letters to write (da nobble is epistolary, dig?)
SeeLight:
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April 16, 2008 at 05: 23 AM thanks guys! wendy, "da nobble" is my nickname for my baby. just like i call my cat "fatboy" and "head of shit." i think that's acceptable.
Nothing Doing
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Afterwards he found one particularly strange hailstone, the size of a small melon and covered in knobbles of ice.
Times, Sunday Times
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So long was the chase, that when the greyhounds pulled down the knobbler, we were out of hearing of your bugles; and having rewarded and coupled the dogs, I gave them to be led by the jester, and we wandered in quest of our company, whom it would seem the sport had led in a different direction.
The Waverley
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So we have a sitting MP and Minister using the Public Service Code of Conduct in an effort to nobble his electoral competition.
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She was so thin that she had knobbles of bone sticking out.
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Yet he manages to nobble a number of people who first agree to contribute to the film, and then mysteriously drop out.
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The jury had been nobbled and the case had to be reheard.
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All I have to say about This Modern World is "Crapulent snurf machine knob knobbler!
Firedoglake » Face the Snark
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You need some big dudes in a team these days to nobble the opposition with no mercy.
The Sun
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I was nobbled by my deaf old aunt and couldn't get away.
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British courts are less corruptible than their European counterparts because it is easier to nobble one judge than 12 jurors.
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Those attracted to John Howard's proposal to nobble the Senate to stop it obstructing his legislation should look first at what he and his predecessors have already done to the House of Representatives.
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He was nobbled by the press who wanted details of the affair.
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Everyone is convinced they are being ripped off and the main strategy is to nobble your opponent.