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These people "have much veneration for a sort of mistletoe, which they call tob; they carry leaves of it on their persons when they go to war as a preservative against wounds, just as if the leaves were real talismans (gris-gris)."

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

These people “have much veneration for a sort of mistletoe, which they call tob; they carry leaves of it on their persons when they go to war as a preservative against wounds, just as if the leaves were real talismans (gris-gris).

Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe 1922

These people “have much veneration for a sort of mistletoe, which they call tob; they carry leaves of it on their persons when they go to war as a preservative against wounds, just as if the leaves were real talismans (gris-gris).”

The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

A tob is the Amtorian unit of weight, and is the equivalent of one third of an English pound; all weights are computed in tobs or decimals thereof, as they use the decimal system exclusively in their tables of weights and measures.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

The Guild of Cornish Hedgers displays photos of old walls, hedge banks and stitches (remnants of medieval strip fields) which contribute to distinctive landscapes; there are references to dialect words still associated with traditional hedge-building like batter, ram, rab hard and tob off.

Country diary: St Ives, Cornwall 2010

Love your graphics and animation timing tob 1 year ago good job and i like the idea of picol!

History of the Internet on Vimeo 2010

Such a rich recipe would indeed be "good for (bringing about) a shout (of joy)", which in Hebrew is, of course, tob le ron, from which is derived the name Toblerone.

Evidence for a Semitic Exclave in the Lower Alpine Region James F. McGrath 2009

I could instead have chosen a “tob-avg” file: “the average of mean monthly maximum and minimum temperatures adjusted only for the time of observation bias”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research 2009

I could instead have chosen a “tob-avg” file: “the average of mean monthly maximum and minimum temperatures adjusted only for the time of observation bias”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research 2009

Better change that quickly so you don't land on MediaMatters. tob wrote on August 27, 2007 6: 13 PM: he is listed as (D-ID). that mistake makes us look like Faux News.

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