Jabos

I look up and through the gaps in the ragged cloud cover I can see American fighters and Jabos, Mustangs and Thunderbolts circling above.

Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

The people around, who now learned from Jabos that Bertram was the person who had wounded him, were struck with his generosity, and added his name to Bertram’s in their exulting exclamations.

Chapter LV 1917

‘I doubt Glossin will prove but shand5after a’, mistress, ’ said Jabos, as he passed through the little lobby beside the bar; ‘but this is a gude half-crown ony way.

Chapter XXXII 1917

‘Weel, aweel, sirs, ’ said Jabos, whose hard-headed and uncultivated shrewdness seemed sometimes to start the game when others beat the bush—‘weel, weel, ye may be a’ mista’en yet—I’ll never believe that a man would lay a plan to shoot another wi’ his ain gun.

Chapter XXXII 1917

‘Aye? and what do ye ken o’ the matter, friend Jabos?

Chapter XI 1917

Moros had fortified themselves, together with many Jabos [Javanese],

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

Jabos “wins till his English,” like Elspeth in the Antiquary, — the Dominie “rather forces a tear from the eye of sentiment than a laugh from the lungs of ribaldry.”

Guy Mannering 1815

Jabos, whom the hostler had deputed to hold his steed.

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

'Weel, aweel, sirs,' said Jabos, whose hard-headed and uncultivated shrewdness seemed sometimes to start the game when others beat the bush -- 'weel, weel, ye may be a' mista'en yet; I'll never believe that a man would lay a plan to shoot another wi 'his ain gun.

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

Jabos, as he passed through the little lobby beside the bar; 'but this is a gude half-crown ony way.'

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