Kib

Kib, now that you mention it, the Python song is playing in my head and I can't take that foot too seriously.

Drawing Made Easy James Gurney 2008

But Kib came one day, brought by a tiny copper-bronze Indian.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

The small Indian thought that three shillings would be a fair exchange; but I knew the par value of such stock, and Kib changed hands for three bits.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

My heart's desire is to run on and tell many paragraphs of Kib; but that, as I have said, would be bad taste, which is one form of immorality.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Soon, in the bamboo glade about our bungalow, ten little jungle friends came to live; and to us they will always be Kib and Gawain,

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

There are in Pegana Mung and Sish and Kib, and the maker of all small gods, who is MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI.

The Gods of Pegana Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

Kib was propitious, and Mung raised not his hand against it, neither did Sish assail it with his hours.

The Gods of Pegana Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

For is it not written, or are you greater than Kib?

The Gods of Pegana Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

Outside the curtains that hung before the dance there stood a chamberlain and when I told him that though a stranger there, yet I was well known to Mung and Sish and Kib, the gods of Pegana, whose signs I made, he bade me ample welcome.

Tales of Three Hemispheres Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

Kib tiptoe gently across Pegana to the resting-place in Highest Pegana of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, and touching reverently his hand, the hand that wrought the gods, say: "MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, thou hast rested long."

The Gods of Pegana Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917