He had not gone very far, however, before he heard a dragging sound ahead of him, and right in his path he saw a great gray rat dragging a large nubbin of corn.
The white mouse gained courage at last, and being very hungry it ate the corn nubbin itself, daintily pulling off each grain of corn, and eating out just the heart of the kernel.
Hardly anybody remembered and none alluded to the fact that the millionaire of Horsford was only two removes from old Sal Smith of Nubbin Ridge.
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Two or three times, with a nubbin of chalk, he tried to draw the face of the young man on that handy bit of kitchen wall where the smooth plaster showed.
Presently she walked into the little room, lit a nubbin of candle, and changed into her best clothes.
For half an hour he watched Peter whittle a nubbin off the end of the sweep and fashion it into a top, but at the first attempt to spin it the top bounded into the water, and floated away, and this suggested boats.
The man wore the ragged remnant of a felt hat on a mass of iron-gray hair that hung over his beady eyes, and all his face but his eyes and a round red nubbin of a nose was hidden by a mat of brown beard.
Any one that had any energy, any spark of ambition, would grow restless or crazy in Nubbin Ridge!
Living in quaint old "Nubbin Ridge," could not, to say the most, be called illustrious.
The low altitude of Nubbin Ridge made me sallow; there was no blood in my cheeks.
Papa and Bill and George have just completed picking corn--nubbins, the kind and only thing that grows in Nubbin Ridge.
Not that she hoped that doing so would bring her anything, but because in her little life in "Nubbin Ridge" there was so little to break the usual monotonous routine.
When a man went to rent a farm in "Nubbin Ridge" he was considered all in, down and out.
Me being involved in anything; I, of "Nubbin Ridge!
But this story is to be concerned only briefly with "Nubbin Ridge," so we will come back to the one around whom it will in a measure center.
Rich land to be rented for one-third of the crops--and we pay two-fifths in Nubbin Ridge where there is no soil, just a sprinkling of dust over the surface.
Most girls she had known back in "Nubbin Ridge" were usually married by the time they had reached her present age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nubbin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
