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Examples
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“When you play poker, do you show your whole hand, Kibosh?” he asks.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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Put the Kibosh to the last week of shotgun season it did but oh well ... we carry on.
And Now For Something Different In The, Uh, Shooting Sports 2008
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"The Little Kibosh" was one of their favourite nonsense songs, and now
Patty's Friends Carolyn Wells 1902
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Thus Kibosh finished, and it entered my mind to descend at our next stop, and take the first train back to my own place; but this thought I quickly dismissed, remembering Masticator's methods of reaching those whom he wanted.
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899
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"Suggestions are now in order," said Kibosh, taking the chairman's seat.
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899
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"He is not married, Professor," said Kibosh, tapping the inkstand soothingly.
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899
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"Since Professor Egghorn has shown us the only way," said Kibosh, "will he not kindly lead off with his suggestions for a reform list?"
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899
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Each looked at the neighboring blackboards in silence; and Kibosh, doubtless with the idea of harmony, set the organ once more to playing, "My spelling 'tis of thee," while the rattling West continued to create a new language behind us.
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899
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"Professor Flawless Nathan Maverick has the floor," said Kibosh.
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899
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I should have been glad to learn the names of all my colleagues, and what they had written, that I might be the better prepared to meet them; but Kibosh could be sure only of Totts and his book; and Professor
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Owen Wister 1899
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