kibes

-- _Detached Thoughts_, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 433.] [621] [For Byron's misapprehension concerning "kibes," see _Childe

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

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

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

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

If a man’s brains were in’s heels, were’t not in danger of kibes?

Act I. Scene V. King Lear

If a man’s brains were in ’s heels, were ’t not in danger of kibes?

Act I. Scene V

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.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.

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

The _ownsha_ had black sooty hair, cut short, an 'walked as if his feet were sore -- and indeed it strikes me that he had kibes -- for these poor people isn't overly clane, an' don't wash their feet goin 'to bed at night, barrin' at Christmas or Easther, the crathurs.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

The blanket was in tatthers, and, like the shirt, would go round the house: their straw-beds were stocked with the _black militia_ -- the childer's heads were garrisoned with _Scotch greys_, and their heels and heads ornamented with all description of kibes.

The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three