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Makes it easier to tell uncle Jed from cousin Jib. rel by
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Jibál el-Safhah; the two blocks, south of the Wady Hamz, known as the Jibál el-Rál; and their neighbours still included in the
The Land of Midian 2003
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Here the maritime heights, known as the Jibál ( "Mountains" of the) Tihámat-Balawiyyah (of "the Baliyy tribe"), recede from the sea, and become mere hills and hillocks; yet the continuity of the chain is never completely broken.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Jibál el-Safhah; the two blocks, south of the Wady Hamz, known as the Jibál el-Rál; and their neighbours still included in the
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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-- himself perhaps amongst the number: there he sat with a brain as burning, and a heart as excited, as though, instead of sipping his bohea beside a sea-coal fire, he was that instant trembling beneath the frown of Dr. Elrington, for the blunders in his Latin theme, and what terror to the mind of a "Jib" can equal that one?
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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-- himself perhaps amongst the number: there he sat with a brain as burning, and a heart as excited, as though, instead of sipping his bohea beside a sea-coal fire, he was that instant trembling beneath the frown of Dr. Elrington, for the blunders in his Latin theme, and what terror to the mind of a "Jib" can equal that one?
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839
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Nova Jackson: Ejects! is the first episode of an ongoing series about a girl, her ship, and her cranky friend Jib Stone.
Jodi Chamberlain: Sink or Swim Jodi Chamberlain 2011
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It feels as though you have been in my heart forever, my dirty-faced little monkey boy, my chunkster, my Jib.
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Nova Jackson: Ejects! is the first episode of an ongoing series about a girl, her ship, and her cranky friend Jib Stone.
Jodi Chamberlain: Sink or Swim Jodi Chamberlain 2011
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“Like one of those old strays Jib Gentry was breeding from the stock they trapped up near Chibougamou.”
The Warden 2010
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