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

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

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