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  • The book was a fat, brown-backed volume of the later Sixties, which King had once thrown at Beetle's head that Beetle might see whence the name Gigadibs came.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • In sign of his unruffled calm, King proceeded to tear Beetle, whom he called Gigadibs, slowly asunder.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Erasmus was a man of letters; Gigadibs a literary man.

    Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

  • The Chiappino of the second act is Ogniben's Chiappino, as Gigadibs is Blougram's Gigadibs.

    Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

  • It has many touches of an almost wild bathos, such as the young man who bears the impossible name of Gigadibs.

    Robert Browning 1905

  • But Browning's intellectual interest is great in seeing all that a Blougram can say for himself; and as a destructive piece of criticism directed against the position of a Gigadibs what he says may really be effective.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • Blougram, the little man Gigadibs is conspicuously there; and

    Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • Stevenson (a greater man than Gigadibs) frankly confessed that he could make nothing of us: --

    From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Erasmus was a man of letters, Gigadibs a literary man.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • Lamp smiled politely -- "McTurk" -- the Irishman scowled -- "and, of course, the unspeakable Beetle, our friend Gigadibs."

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

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