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  • The platform was supported by demons, "guebre" figures all round, and columns resting on the backs of feline animals.

    Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • Pehlevi became the Jávidán Khirad (“Wisdom of Ages”) or the Testament of Hoshang, that ancient guebre King, and in Sanskrit the Panchatantra (“Five Chapters”), is a recueil of apologues and anecdotes related by the learned Brahman, Vishnu

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hoshang, that ancient guebre King, and in Sanskrit the

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • If it is associated with the Arabic _jawr_, a "deviating" or "erring," the initial consonant would be soft, but if with the Persian _gawr_, or _guebre_, "a fire-worshipper," the word should be pronounced _Gow-er_ -- as Gower

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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