Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibuses
Literary usage of Gibuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Gamle Norge.": Rambles and Scrambles in Norway by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1879)
"We shall not find them in Bergen, that is certain; only Huldre appears in public,
and she coyly at the festivities : she delights not in war-paint, gibuses, ..."
2. A Wanderer's Notes by William Beatty-Kingston (1888)
"Old, staid gentlemen, in white chokers and gibuses, with barren dukedoms and
plurality of quarterings as plainly expressed in their irreproachable tenue as ..."
3. The Russians at Home: Unpolitical Sketches, Showing what Newspapers They by Henry Sutherland Edwards (1861)
"First, the monks in black caftans, in high black caps or hats like brimless
gibuses, with long black veils hanging down at the back, and for the most part ..."
4. Twice Around the Clock: Or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London by George Augustus Sala, William McConnell (1862)
"There were opera-hats in those days—half moon cocked-hats ; now the men carry
gibuses like pancakes. The link boys are disappearing — the leather-lunged, ..."
5. The Theory and Practice of Gas-lighting: In which is Exhibited an Historical by Thomas Snowdon Peckston (1819)
"O« the Economy of using Pit-coal as Fuel—the Heat it generates—the Forms of Grates
and Fire-places—with Remarks on the various gibuses practised in the ..."
6. Precedents and Forms in Conveyancing by Charles Davidson (1880)
"... SETTLEMENTS OF DIFFERENT ESTATES AFD VARIOUS SPECIAL gibuses. XXVI. . WILL of
REAL and PERSONAL estate. DEVISE of certain REAL estate to the intent that ..."
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