"Sib" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and waved his arms at the low ceiling. 'Before the face of Almighty God I swear that I ha' no truck with Margot my niece. Since she has been sib with the whore of the devil called Kat Howard, never hath she told me a secret through her paramour or elsewise. A shut head the heavy logget keepeth—let her not come within reach of my hand.' He swayed back upon his feet. 'Let her not come,' he said. He bent his ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... broom was knotted wi' tow, An' a rag on't fluttered free, While he shook his heid owre some ferlies there, That I'm bathered if I could see, Though I kent my soul was sib to his In ...
— The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots • David Rorie
... Vigo and Borja (pronounced Borha) on the Babo River were established. Manbos of the Sibgat River were converted and a settlement was founded at its juncture with the W-wa. This settlement is now called Pait. San Miguel on the Tgo River was founded with 25 families, most of whom were Manbos. This town is no longer in existence. Amparo, on the other hand, was abandoned, ...
— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan
... making Lebanon my home; therefore I don't want a wife of my country. There is no people sib to me here but the Druse people.... Would ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
... been enough to show the emotional force and the trenchant irony of Latzko's book. It scorches. It is a torch of suffering and revolt. Both its merits and its defects are sib to this frenzy. The author is master of the writer's art, but he is not always master of his own feelings. His memories are still open wounds. He is possessed by his visions. His nerves vibrate like violin strings. Almost without exception, ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland
... haps the bairn, are aye sib (related) to the mither!—Gang ben the hoose wi' Maggie, my dear; and lay ye doon on her bed, and she'll lay the bairnie aside ye, and fess yer brakfast there til ye. Ye winna be easy to sair (satisfy), haein had sae ...
— Salted With Fire • George MacDonald
... Appollos sacred Deitie, That shepheardesse so neare is Sib[124] to me As I ne may (for all the world) her wed; For she and I in one selfe wombe were bred. But she is gone, her ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... people intirely, Mr. Barry? and won't it be a great thing for Miss Anty, to be sib to a lord? Shure yer honour'd not be refusing me this ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope |
