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  • “When you play poker, do you show your whole hand, Kibosh?” he asks.

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  • Put the Kibosh to the last week of shotgun season it did but oh well ... we carry on.

    And Now For Something Different In The, Uh, Shooting Sports 2008

  • "The Little Kibosh" was one of their favourite nonsense songs, and now

    Patty's Friends Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Thus Kibosh finished, and it entered my mind to descend at our next stop, and take the first train back to my own place; but this thought I quickly dismissed, remembering Masticator's methods of reaching those whom he wanted.

    How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899

  • "Suggestions are now in order," said Kibosh, taking the chairman's seat.

    How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899

  • "He is not married, Professor," said Kibosh, tapping the inkstand soothingly.

    How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899

  • "Since Professor Egghorn has shown us the only way," said Kibosh, "will he not kindly lead off with his suggestions for a reform list?"

    How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899

  • Each looked at the neighboring blackboards in silence; and Kibosh, doubtless with the idea of harmony, set the organ once more to playing, "My spelling 'tis of thee," while the rattling West continued to create a new language behind us.

    How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899

  • "Professor Flawless Nathan Maverick has the floor," said Kibosh.

    How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899

  • I should have been glad to learn the names of all my colleagues, and what they had written, that I might be the better prepared to meet them; but Kibosh could be sure only of Totts and his book; and Professor

    How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899

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