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Definition of Nob hill
1. Noun. A fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nob Hill
Literary usage of Nob hill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"On October 29, about three thousand of them proceeded in a tumultuous body to
the summit of what was known as "nob hill," near the corner of California and ..."
2. The Bookman (1910)
""There they dwell upon the hill-top, high raised above men's clamour, and the
trade wind blows between their palaces about deserted streets." nob hill ..."
3. The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks, Opie Percival Read (1906)
"... Magnificent Residences, Beautiful Churches and Parks the Delight of Every
Visitor—nob hill, the Home of the Comstock Kings, Art, Refinement and Riches— ..."
4. The California Earthquake of 1906 by Fusakichi Ōmori, John Casper Branner, Charles Derleth, Grove Karl Gilbert, Stephen Taber, Harold Wellman Fairbanks, Mary Hunter Austin (1907)
"another, fleeing from the too-heated border of the park to its packed center,
deftly up-ended a roll of bedding, "nob hill" After the Fire, ..."
5. San Francisco in Ruins: A Pictorial History of Eight Score Photo-views of by James David Givens, A. M. Allison (1906)
"... Taken from the Corner of Seventh and Folsom Streets, Showing the US Postoffice,
Left Center, and nob hill, Right Distance. The Million-Dollar Church and ..."
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