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  • BUT IN OUR SEARCH through New Orleans we had little success in finding the individual who was of most interest to us—Apollonaire Babineau, also known as Jigger Babineau because he had served his apprenticeship in the Mob as a lookout man for a gang of smash-and-grab jewel thieves.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • BUT IN OUR SEARCH through New Orleans we had little success in finding the individual who was of most interest to us—Apollonaire Babineau, also known as Jigger Babineau because he had served his apprenticeship in the Mob as a lookout man for a gang of smash-and-grab jewel thieves.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • The girls are called Jigger, Dusty and Skeeter-but I do not know which is which.

    You Live Once MacDonald, John D. 1956

  • But all the same he didn't like poor old 'Jigger' Adams being left there -- didn't see how he could go home and face old 'Jigger's' missus and tell her he'd come away and left 'Jigger' lying in the mud of a mangel-wurzel field.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • Jigger the brakes so it looks like Nora might have done it herself.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • Chink made two extortionate loans, and three came from Francis Jigger Santo.

    The Mob and Me John Partington 2010

  • In particular, over on A Jigger of a Blog, Matt Browner Hamlin writes thoughtfully in response:

    Spirits: A few more shots of tequila Jason Wilson 2010

  • Jigger the brakes so it looks like Nora might have done it herself.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • We live to Pervert the Platform, Jigger with the Djurus, and Stretch the Sambuts -- if you know what I mean -- and as for adat and hormat, those are those little sausages that come in cans, right?

    Notes to Myself Steve Perry 2009

  • Jigger--you seem to be a one-trick pony, or maybe an alchemist.

    Vatican says bishop's apology is not enough | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

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