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  • 'Below that is what we call the level, clay-like earth where we find the nobbies of opal.'

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

  • Further on, when the carriage was much emptier, a middle-aged man got in, and we began discussing the fishing season, Aran fishing, hookers, nobbies, and mackerel.

    In Wicklow and West Kerry 1890

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