Lexicographical Neighbors of Kibbi
Literary usage of Kibbi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Africa During the Years 1875[-1886] by Wilhelm Junker (1890)
"He suggested that the kibbi (Welle) was a long way off, ... had certainly consented
to my going at least as far as the kibbi. So l was now anxious to secure ..."
2. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States by Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Meeting (1905)
"Smith, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who signed himself "Jon kibbi."
Second honorable mention to Major CE Woodruff, USA, and Lieutenant FJ Woodbury, ..."
3. A Vanished Dynasty, Ashanti by Francis Charles Bernard Dudley Fuller (1921)
"The King complied with these terms. The two men were executed, and their skulls
sent to kibbi as tokens of the King's sincerity and goodwill. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"... and tho seam of gold which runs through them appears to be a continuation of
tho seam that starts near kibbi, Eastern Akim, and proceeds in a westerly ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"... which he reached at its source the kibbi, being the first white man to penetrate
into those regions. Dr. Junker's chief object in all his wanderings was ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The Akim (Akem), who occupy the northeast portion of the colony, have engaged in
gold-digging from time immemorial. The capital of their country is kibbi. ..."
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