kibes

-- _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

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

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

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

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

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

Act I. Scene V. King Lear 1914

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

Act I. Scene V 1909

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. 1898

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

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