It'll also give a nice nubby pattern up at the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random questions on a Friday morning.] Reference

MERRILL: You know, I don't like those nubby fabrics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2001] Reference

He's got his nubby little finger on all our buttons.    From Wordnik.com.  [elephants Diary Entry] Reference

The furniture was colonial maple with nubby seat cushions.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

I focused on a nubby green material and curving rattan arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leave a Message for Willie]

The same turquoise couch shaped in a semicircle of nubby tweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joy Luck Club]

From a Houston Press page that has information about this nubby toy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

The nubby, well-worn fabric was rough and slightly oily under his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Fire]

It was the short pattern, very short sleeves, in a dark green nubby silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [the day after the day after the day after Christmas = another sale - A Dress A Day] Reference

A girl on a nubby chair in a dirty room, awake after everything had died.    From Wordnik.com.  [States of Residency] Reference

That beige one is to die for in a textured, nubby or shantung-y type fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Week's Pattern Story - A Dress A Day] Reference

The dough will retain a nubby, tacky quality because of the whole-grain flour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

The nubby fabric abraded her skin, but the sensation was comforting, familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Midnight Hour] Reference

Her white breasts are small, nubby; up-pointed and rubbery from the cool water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Season of the Machete]

Or that nubby spray-paint one uses on patio furniture to give it the look of granite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Blues] Reference

Ali Bashinski Ssemakula sported a nubby orange wool sweater in the warm Kampala sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenna Gordon: The Russian Ugandan at Kampala's Caf�� Pap] Reference

And cushions casually tossed about her couch that she made from fabulously nubby bathmats.    From Wordnik.com.  [weeme Diary Entry] Reference

Furniture was upholstered in earth tonesbrowns and oranges-and piled high with nubby pillows.    From Wordnik.com.  ["How We Got Here: The 1970s--The Decade That Brought You Modern Life"] Reference

I might have thought it was a kind of stiff, nubby silk except I know it was machine washable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small Consolations - A Dress A Day] Reference

There was mud on the nubby floor mats, which were brick red and did not match the gray carpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Debt Collector]

It has this wonderful, nubby-textured material that she loves clutching with her chubby little fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [21 « August « 2008 « Adventures in Juggling] Reference

He felt how cool and delicate her fingers were around the bottle and how nubby the surface of the bottle was.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 6]

It smells as good as it tastes, supremely maple-y, with just the right soft nubby texture from the chestnuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maple Syrup Conundrum] Reference

Even happier than that time we went ice skating at Hotel de Ville in nubby wool scarves and matching mittens?.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Coquette:] Reference

Its got the tiny nubby pink flowers and long lance shaped leaves with a darker “thumbprint” in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [My freaky garden « knitnut.net] Reference

Not to mention the final patty is pleasantly nubby and rustic because it has these irregular larger chunks in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honey Scallion Sliders (and How Now to Cook Brown Cow)] Reference

She's put aside those atrocious, orange/turquoise, nubby jackets and gone back to the black pantsuit idea of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

And I thought the Base Ship could heal itself, why does it still have nubby glowing stubs yet Zephyr is good as new?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

January 22, 2008 at 2:56 pm muumuu fr aftr teh baf, nubby glovz fr exfolyatin, over-teh-dor hook fr hangin teh muumuu on.    From Wordnik.com.  [hoo turn off mah bubblez? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Gros Lard- I really would recommend making these with whole wheat flour, it 's what gives them their nice nubby texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kleeja (Cardamom-Wheat Cookies)] Reference

The ceiling was finished, as was the interior wall, in a deep blue fabric, slightly nubby, giving the effect of raw silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ninja]

Inside, I sparked to the modern feel of the nubby, textured-aluminum air vents and my short-toss, six-speed manual shifter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Test: Audi A3] Reference

I know of one beautiful stump on which the buyer wanted permission to remove part of its bark to see if it had nubby growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference

Loeb does have a bit of a way with paint, particularly in limning slightly fuzzy edges to objects on very rough, nubby canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts Extra: Color Me Cool] Reference

You can throw an interesting, long, nubby scarf around the neck and wear it out anywhere with beautiful jeans and wonderful boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-17] Reference

Sweep up all of your mates hairs that you've been collecting obsessively over the past 3 years, and spin it into a roughly nubby yarn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference