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  • noun Plural form of bible.

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Examples

  • There was a TV show on the History Channel recently with that same title -- it included the writing/gathering of the Greek and Latin bibles, plus some New Testament history.

    Archive 2003-12-07 Michael Evans 2003

  • There was a TV show on the History Channel recently with that same title -- it included the writing/gathering of the Greek and Latin bibles, plus some New Testament history.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2003

  • By Oct. 27, Gamble performed her second preview show, carrying what she calls little "bibles" -- mini-scripts the Arena staff prepared for each of her scenes, tucking them into her costume aprons and checking lines when she needed to.

    For Eleasha Gamble, a sudden journey to 'Oklahoma!' at Arena Stage Jane Horwitz 2010

  • Bishop Cumberland, in the last century, took some pains to unravel this, and concluded that the marginal translation in our bibles is the right one -- that in the text being, "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh", &c.; that in the margin,

    Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield

  • I listened to George Ealer's flute; or to his readings from his two bibles, that is to say, Goldsmith and Shakespeare; or I played chess with him -- and would have beaten him sometimes, only he always took back his last move and ran the game out differently.

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • I listened to George Ealer's flute; or to his readings from his two bibles, that is to say, Goldsmith and Shakespeare; or I played chess with him -- and would have beaten him sometimes, only he always took back his last move and ran the game out differently.

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

  • While we lay at landings, I listened to George Ealer's flute; or to his readings from his two bibles, that is to say, Goldsmith and Shakespeare; or I played chess with him -- and would have beaten him sometimes, only he always took back his last move and ran the game out differently.

    Life on the Mississippi 1870

  • Several personal development "bibles" are frequently read and quoted from at my house including "Think and Grow Rich" and "The Greatest Salesman in the World."

    Nelson Davis: A Capitalist Fundamentalist 2009

  • Consider, those 'bibles' translated from the pagan greek manuscripts.

    Christian Nation Irony James F. McGrath 2009

  • Why is it that most all of those 'bibles' transliterate The Name of The Messiah as "jesus"?

    Christian Nation Irony James F. McGrath 2009

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