Niffer

She took in Niffer once more, the faintly domineering power the girl seemed to have over her son, as if she might stretch out a paw and cuff him.

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I'm Chuck, "he said to Hannah, thrusting out his hand," and that's my girl Niffer. ""

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Niffer was larger than Leo – taller, meatier – with soot-black hair pulled into a dozen little pigtails.

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E.J. Banks at Bismya (Udab), and those of the university of Pennsylvania at Niffer (see NIPPUR) first begun in 1889, where Mr J.H. H.ynes has systematically and patiently uncovered the remains of the great temple of

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

He also conducted diggings at Babylon and Niffer (Nippur).

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

It is the modern Niffer, a lofty mound of earth and rubbish situated in the marshes on the left, i.e., the east, bank of the

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Larsa (now Senkereh), the Ellasar of Gen. 14: 1, a little to the east of Erech; Nipur (now Niffer), south-east of Babylon;

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Beltis into the great temple at Niffer, probably copied from some ancient source, and Gudea, a king of Lagaš (Telloh), who reigned about

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895

Babylonian equivalent of the name of this divinity, in consequence of the Aramaic transcription given by certain contract-tablets discovered by the American expedition to Niffer, and published by

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895

Though the place has been deserted for at least nine hundred years, its ancient name still lingers on in local tradition, and to this day _Niffer_ or

Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition 1894