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- noun Plural form of
kibe .
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Examples
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-- _Detached Thoughts_, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 433.] [621] [For Byron's misapprehension concerning "kibes," see _Childe
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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By the kibes of thy heels, quoth Panurge, thou dost not understand the topics.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By the kibes of thy heels, quoth Panurge, thou dost not understand the topics.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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With adventurers, people who are treading upon his kibes, equivocal pretenders who are galling his heel, he is hopelessly exclusive, preserving towards them an armed neutrality.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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If a mans brains were ins heels, weret not in danger of kibes?
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If a mans brains were in s heels, were t not in danger of kibes?
Act I. Scene V 1909
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Louis XVth went around by himself in droves, stiff and uncomfortable as a Presbyterian Sunday-school, wishing every time his rapier galled his kibes or tangled his royal legs that he had remained comfortably dead in that dog-hole at St. Denis.
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They are born, it would seem, with more than the common allowance of kibes for treading on: a severe misfortune for them.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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They are born, it would seem, with more than the common allowance of kibes for treading on: a severe misfortune for them.
Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868
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