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Examples

  • Missus Gubu - It isn't me ya should be doin' in, Mister Gubu, it's another fellow altogether.

    languagehat.com: KING GUBU. 2004

  • Water levels at Laing Dam, also on the Buffalo River, and Gubu and Wiggleswade dams in Stutterheim also showed marked increases.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Drift dam 86,92 percent full, the Nahoon dam at 74,9 percent and the Gubu dam at 55,33 percent full.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • the comic use of French puns and insults, I bring you King Gubu, the Irishization by Tom Quinn of Alfred Jarry's scandalous 1896 play Ubu Roi, whose famous opening exclamation "Merdre!" and the following lines are rendered:Mister Gubu - Gobshites!

    languagehat.com: KING GUBU. 2004

  • What I loved most, though, were the pictures he painted of a magical winter he and Neal had spent on his grandfather Croft’s Gubu farm, the year that he turned five years old.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • What I loved most, though, were the pictures he painted of a magical winter he and Neal had spent on his grandfather Croft’s Gubu farm, the year that he turned five years old.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

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