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Oh you may think the evidence for my existence is weak but can you afford to be wrong when your very soul hangs in the balance? gabz Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010
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Of yet others, the often-mentioned _Voyage à Constantinoble_, with its rather unseemly _gabz_ (boasting jests of the peers, which are overheard by the heathen emperor with results which seem like at one time to be awkward), is among the oldest, and is a warning against the tendency to take the presence of comic elements as a necessary evidence of late date.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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[15] There are comic _episodes_ elsewhere; but almost the whole of this poem turns on the _gabz_ or burlesque boasts of the paladins.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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There is sometimes faintly mingled with this (as in the _gabz_ of the
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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