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  • Bullone, across from her, wore black lounging shorts and knee-length _kubi_ jacket of golden pearl cloth.

    Operation Haystack Frank Patrick Herbert

  • The Karo prostrated himself, retired and presently returning, placed before his master a kubi-oke [4] upon which lay the freshly-severed head of a beautiful woman -- the head of the young wife of the dead Kengyo -- with the simple utterance:

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • To have a nuke-kubi is to have a head that detaches itself from the body, and prowls about at night -- by itself.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • There was a tale that some police-officer, late at night, saw a woman's head without a body, nibbling fruit from a tree overhanging some garden-wall; and that, knowing it to be a nuke - kubi, he struck it with the flat of his sword.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • What I could not fully understand was the exhibition of a nuke-kubi, in which a young woman stretched her neck, apparently, to a length of about two feet, making ghastly faces during the performance. º6

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • It was the ancient custom to place the head of a decapitated person upon a kubi-oke before conveying the ghastly trophy into the palace of the prince desirous of seeing it.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Españolesob te ti Hooe tenix kubi patan ti concixtadoresob ti Hoo, tenix batab uai ti cacab Cħac Xulub Cħen lae tamuk u escribanoil Roderigo

    The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868

  • I'm so in love with you genki nai yoro to anata kara iwareta shunkan namida koko sue kubi de nebusoku kara de iiwakeshita ichiban taisetsu na hito ni uso wo kasaneteku ima no watashi mainichi, mainichi, mune ga kurushii kara ikutsu mo, ikutsu mo, nemureru yoru wo koe hajimete, hajimete, deatta ano hibi mata modoreru no nara ii no ni

    SachinKRaj - The Blog 2009

  • WEEKLY TRANSFER ROUND-UP IV kubi: are there any more games coming up before the peace cup?

    The Offside 2009

  • Cissokho's Redcarpet Homecoming kubi: and it would be much better to just get a back-up for licha, not another great striker, because then ...

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

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