| The faces of the ashlars are nicely finished except for several rough bosses or nubbins. |
| Block and boulder-strewn nubbins and castle koppies apparently evolve through the further weathering, in the subsurface, of incipient bornhardts. |
| A young rabbit toyed with taking up residence in a corner of the garden, nibbling dandelions and pea plants to nubbins. |
| It went nicely with the soup of the day, a thick, puréed Irish cabbage soup crowned with caraway crème fraîche and nubbins of crisp bacon. |
| But why deprive yourself of the soulful braised collards and kale with shards of soft-roasted garlic and crisp nubbins of bacon? |
| It may have been the intention of the stone masons to remove these nubbins after the wall was completed. |
