Bibber

Robinette: She was a Bibber before she married a Robinette.

Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, 1977 July. Interview H-41. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Jefferson M. Robinette Jefferson M. Robinette 1977

Richard Harding Davis located one of his stories here: See "Van Bibber and the Swan Boats," in the volume called _Van Bibber and Others_.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

[Elt is Freisic, robustus, vegetus, as cowparsley is among other kinds.] _See_ Bibber.

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes

The coloured beau, a heavy swell, in spats and a van Bibber overcoat.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

He had a trick of hitching himself up from the belt -- one palm on the stomach and a sort of heaving jerk from the waist, as a prize fighter does it -- that would have made a Van Bibber look rough.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

Little and I hired two donkeys and called them "Gallegher" and "Van Bibber" and raced them.

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 1917

Little and I hired two donkeys and called them "Gallegher" and "Van Bibber" and raced them.

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917

Bibber, as related in "Her First Appearance," took the child that he had practically kidnapped to restore her to her father and to be rewarded for his intrusion by being sensibly called a well-meaning fool.

Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

There is no mistaking the house, which "faced the avenue," nor the stone wall that ran back to the brown stable which opened on the side street, nor the door in the wall, that, opening cautiously, showed Van Bibber the head of his quarry.

Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

But there is another apartment house at the south-west corner of the Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street which better fits the description, which tells how Van Bibber, from the windows, could see the many gas lamps of

Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909