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  • This may well be the first time the Doctor has met a character from a Carl Barks comic (Bombie the Zombie, from the classic Donald Duck story Voodoo Hoodoo), but I do hope it won't be the last.

    Voodoo Who Do Roger Langridge 2006

  • MacLellan of Bombie, at the Threave Castle, 29 and that put Steenie mair and mair on his guard.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • This may well be the first time the Doctor has met a character from a Carl Barks comic (Bombie the Zombie, from the classic Donald Duck story Voodoo Hoodoo), but I do hope it won't be the last.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Roger Langridge 2006

  • The first dive was at "Barra Bombie" - translation "Barramundi Bombie" and a bombie is a round-shaped coral site.

    the great barrier reef WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008

  • Now these were the very words that the bloody Earl of Douglas said to keep the King’s messenger in hand, while he cut the head off MacLellan of Bombie, at the Threave Castle; 4and that put Steenie mair and mair on his guard.

    Wandering Willie’s Tale 1921

  • ” Now these were the very words that the bloody Earl of Douglas said to keep the king’s messenger in hand while he cut the head off MacLellan of Bombie, at the Threave Castle; and that put Steenie mair and mair on his guard.

    Wandering Willie’s Tale 1907

  • MacLellan of Bombie, at the Threave Castle; and put Steenie mair and mair on his guard.

    Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

  • Bombie_ (1597-98), Act i.sc. 3, contains the following passage: --

    At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History William Andrews 1878

  • Bombie out of prison, and have him to the greene and there strooke off his head and took the samine away from him, and syne covered a fair cloth on his bodie that nothing might be seene of that treasonable act that was done.

    Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

  • But the Earle of Douglas on the other pairt took a suspicion and conjecture what Sir Patrick's Gray's commission was, and dreading the desyne thereof should be for his friend, the tutor of Bombie; therefore in the meane time when they were at the dinner, talking of merry matters, the Earle caused quietly take forth the tutor of

    Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

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