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Examples
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I found a Hurley, a Locke, several Suns and Jins, a Desmond, and even a smoke monster -- the town dump, where garbage burns day and night and feral dogs lots of Vincents! eat their meals.
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Ben got Jins wedding ring because Locke gave it to him.
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Jins, and they became troubled, hating each other.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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Come all of you, rest, sit round me, and we will talk, till the _Jins_ (= women) get ready tea.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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"Allah, Allah, Allah is great, and Mohammed is his Prophet!" they sang out in chorus, as a charm to keep the Jins at a distance.
Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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"It must have been a Jin, though he looked like a black slave; and this is known to be the dwelling-place of Jins."
Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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His guards declared that they had seen a thick smoke ascend from where he lay, and that when they went to the spot he had disappeared, -- thus proving without doubt that the Jins (or evil spirits) had carried him off.
Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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"Yes; you worship Jins, and have dealings with the Evil One," he answered in a confident tone, as if he knew all about the matter.
Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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As the Arabs have a notion that such places are inhabited by Jins or evil spirits, I was in hopes that they would, at all events, not attempt to explore it till daylight; but even if they did, we considered that we were so securely hidden that they were not likely to find us.
Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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E Side above the head of Jins island and landed to take brackfast as well as to delay untill Shannon & Gibson Should arive.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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