Biribi

Passing over other less important games, called Biribi, and Kraps (played with dice), we come to Passe-Dix, which seems to demand some notice.

The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870

"I was -- from prison, not from the battalion of Biribi."

The Maids of Paradise 1899

Biribi the dog, than, starting again to his feet, he said:

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

She walked up and down the garden, Biribi the dog by her side.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

When she made these excursions to Sark, Dormy Jamais had always remained at the little house, milking her cow, feeding her fowls, and keeping all in order -- as perfect a sentinel as old Biribi, and as faithful.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

We go running on as happy as can be, like Biribi there in the garden, and all at once we stop short at a hedge, just as he does there -- a hedge just too tall to look over and with no foothold for climbing.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

He was more a watch-dog than Biribi; he fetched and carried; he was silent and sleepless -- always sleepless.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

Slowly the monstrous ciphers faded from the grey hemisphere of space, and she saw again the newspaper in her trembling fingers, the kitchen into which the sunlight streamed from the open window, the dog Biribi basking in the doorway.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

Guida sat by the fire sewing, Biribi the dog at her feet.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

"That's the way of life, Biribi -- watching and waiting, and watching -- always watching."

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897