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  • When I went to the plantation, I found that my two English side-saddles had been left on a rack in the piazza where I had them moved this spring from the stuffy harness room, but I didn't mean them to stay there always; it is scarcely safe now that I have moved to the village and there is no one in the yard; so this afternoon I called Gibbie to bring them into the house.

    A Woman Rice Planter 1914

  • They reached at length the little eminence or knoll upon the highest part of the common, called Gibbie’s-knowe—a spot repeatedly mentioned in this history, as being on the skirts of the Ellangowan estate.

    Chapter LII 1917

  • They reached at length the little eminence or knoll upon the highest part of the common, called Gibbie's Knowe -- a spot repeatedly mentioned in this history as being on the skirts of the

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • They reached at length the little eminence or knoll upon the highest part of the common, called Gibbie's Knowe -- a spot repeatedly mentioned in this history as being on the skirts of the Ellangowan estate.

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • They reached at length the little eminence or knoll upon the highest part of the common, called Gibbie's Knowe -- a spot repeatedly mentioned in this history as being on the skirts of the

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • "Gibbie," I said, "how many times were you thrown out of the road cart when Jim and you went with Marietta?"

    A Woman Rice Planter 1914

  • But the waking up of a human soul to know itself in the mirror of its thoughts and feelings, its loves and delights, oppresses me with so heavy a sense of marvel and inexplicable mystery, that when I imagine myself such as Gibbie then was, I cannot imagine myself coming awake.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • I can hardly believe that, from being such as Gibbie was the hour before he heard the ballad, I should ever have come awake.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • It was very unkind of Gibbie to leave her, she said to herself, But then he was a sort of angel, and doubtless had to go and help somebody else.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • The bundle had in it a piece of hard cheese, such as Gibbie had already made acquaintance with, and a few quarters of cakes.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

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