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  • The bigger mouse she called Tib, and the lesser Jone.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Only one old maid having trod in Tib's own footsteps, and married a Duke, was pronounced to have been the dear friend and companion of her youth - and took brevet rank accordingly.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • Even when she has a bad cold in her head, (and Tib is very subject to snuffling colds) she orders out her carriage; and is trotted gently to the church door; and goes rustling into her pew lined with crimson cloth, and furnished with crimson cloth hassocks; and looks round triumphantly at the rest of the congregation.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • Once, (and this was the crowning handful in Tib's sheaf,) Mr. Malcolm, incited thereto by the Dagoness, to whom he still bore a Tibbite loyalty and whom he still considered "pairfect," and only elevated to the position she deserved, in becoming Countess of Peebles, began questioning David as to "what Lindsay he was; for it was surely a Scotch name, and nae doot the family of settlers must originally hae been Scotch."

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • Do ye ken Mr. Stuart weel? and in Tib's green eye came a gleam of spite, like a line of light on a turbid wave.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • The wrath that flashed in Tib's keen green eyes, warned the quondam bridesmaid to beat an immediate retreat, which she did somewhat ignominiously.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • And Tib is wrathful and astonished at the venturesome jest; and she resolves to punish the little Dagon - even in his pride of place; which she does in a variety of ways.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • The injury is commonly known as a Tib-Fib or Boot Top fracture.

    Kuklas Korner 2008

  • Tib never could cast up a sum in her life; and she thinks it a dreary employment, and a waste of time and ingenuity; and Tib is hot and thirsty with driving and walking, and wishes for sherry and water, or whisky and water, or claret without water, or even a good glass of Scotch ale; all of which various liquids she knows are in the hamper, under what the Duchess calls, "those jagged old firs."

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • What if you have a legitimate name such as Tibério? —

    Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put ‘Tibet’ in My Hotmail Address - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

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