| Sweetbreads are tossed with nubbles of sesame seeds and a succulent swoon of miso-glazed smoked aubergine. |
| Sometimes the dancers pat and touch one another as if to ease pain or detect fever, gestures like small, remarkable nubbles in the weave of the dance. |
| Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles. |
| There were a couple of days when we thought we could actually see the tiny pale-green nubbles growing as we sat on the stoop of my father's house on Bank Street. |
