Do we say gibe or jibe

gibe 68 occurrences

He said he was a modest man and didn't like it, and Mac, turning a little rusty under the gibe, answered: "Haven't you got the sense to see we've cut all the good timber just round here?"

This answer, so contrary to all the accepted usages of war, which reserve such payments till after the conclusion of peace, was no empty gibe; for when, some time before the preliminaries had been signed, the British and American commissioners met to effect an exchange of prisoners, the Americans began by claiming the immediate payment of what the British prisoners had cost them.

They laughed, or shouted out a gibe, or what was still more wonderful, went on with a complete unaffected indifference, as if all this was natural.

There was no sneer upon his face, no gibe at my simplicity.

He pulled the rude shallop to her feet and they got in and went on, Jack not heeding her gibe.

And ever as it swung upon the air, it rang a chime upon its little, silver bells; a merry chime and mocking, that seemed to gibe at coming day.

You must not chide them as their master, but you may gibe with them as their companion.

ed. Bekker) reports this brutal gibe of Nero's; Rubellius Plautus was the luckless victim:[Greek: "ho de dae Neron kai gelota kai skommata, ta ton syngenon kaka hepoieito ton goun Plauton apokteinas, hepeita taen kephalaen autou prosenechtheisan

Yet I ought not, even in a distant land, to fling an idle gibe against a gentleman of whom I really know nothing, except that the people under his charge bear all possible tokens of being tended and cared for as sedulously as if each of them sat by a warm fireside of his own, with a daughter bustling round the hearth to make ready his porridge and his titbits.

Seeing, however, that the schoolmaster's flush of enthusiasm seemed on the point of dying out, he roused himself to gibe it into life.

Ay, Louvois, it will be a dear gibe to him.

Several were met with the gibe, "You're a good speaker, go down to your halls, they want you there."

They gibe and they mock at me beneath my very window.

Parliament has for once repelled the gibe that it has ceased to represent the people in the tribute of praise paid by Lords and Commons to our sailors and soldiers and all the other gallant folk who are helping us to win the War.

Was I to brook the fellow's saucy gibe "That if the peasant must have bread to eat, Why, let him go and draw the plough himself?" It cut me to the very soul to see My oxen, noble creatures, when the knave Unyoked them from the plough.

The life God gives us he gibe's us to hand on to ithersto our children, and through them to generations still to come.

The implication that Pacifists of any kind have ever urged that war is impossible is due either to that confusion of thought just touched upon, or is merely a silly gibe of those who deride arguments to which they have not listened, and consequently do not understand, or which they desire to misrepresent; and such misrepresentation is, when not unconscious, always stupid and unfair.

One is justified in wondering whether the public menstatesmen, soldiers, bishops, preachers, journalistswho indulge in this gibe, are really unable to distinguish between the plea that a thing is unwise, foolish, and the plea that it is impossible; whether they really suppose that anyone in our time could argue that human folly is impossible, or an "illusion."

But what we criticise is the persistent effort to discredit honest attempts at a better understanding of the facts of international relationship, the everlasting gibe which it is thought necessary to fling at any constructive effort, apart from armament, to make peace secure.

But in a very few minutes he scorned himself, and was possessed by a pensive wonder that one so tragically fated as he could resent an old man's gibe.

They do not forget, either, though many would but for an occasional gibe from some envious Mrs. Grundy, that both they and their husbands were the children of obscurity and poverty; which, rather than being any dishonor, as it is often thought, particularly by the vainer sex, is a badge of genuine honor and royal patent of the man's energy and industry.

The light and mocking tone of these letters, the constant comparison between the two peoples, with many a gibe at the English, but always turning to their advantage, the preference given to the philosophical system of Newton over that of Descartes, lastly the attacks upon religion concealed beneath the cloak of banterall this was more than enough to ruffle the tranquillity of Cardinal Fleury.

At the gibe business the German is, perhaps, better than the Briton.

If there is aught of impropriety in what this man Sir John has done, is it not our affair with him in place of a silly gibe at Dorothy?"

This gibe suddenly roused the temper of the other participant in the debate.

jibe 31 occurrences

As free men, they will think, as free men they will speak, and as such they will act, regardless of the jibe and sneer of those who accuse them of change, of inconsistency, of being mutable and unstable of purpose.

" Misunderstanding Austin's jibe at the official, the lady stood her ground, smiling into the face of the excited Kentuckian.

A bob was a sarcastic jest or jibe.

He was the first to jibe.

As they neared each other, the German commander shouted a jibe at the Belgian sergeant.

Now the king's messengers, who were in quest of such a sireless man, when they heard this bitter jibe of the varlet, asked of those around concerning the youth who had never seen his sire.

Their temperaments don't jibe.

But the number, as tallied by the automatic gates, does not jibe with the number of ordinary admissions sold at the ticket office.

[Footnote 2: 'Not one jibe, not one flash of merriment now?']

to the police who were bludgeoning an Irish one, was a personal jibe which hit him hard.

"He t'inks he can jibe!

The dunce cap jibe rankled.

He went one time to Quin Abbey when it was building, looking for a job, and the men were going to their dinner, and he had poor clothes, and they began to jibe at him, and the foreman said 'Make now a cat-and-nine-tails while we are at our dinner, if you are any good.'

They complained, and the French admiral then arrived and pointed his guns at the palace and the Protestant mission, and demanded thirty thousand dollars for the insult to the French flag; and for the jibe at the pope, the matching of every Protestant church in the islands, by a Catholic edifice.

Of course, as the boatman afterward informed me, this was the most dangerous way I could steer, for if the sail should suddenly "jibe," there would be no knowing what would happen.

" "I reckon the kid is right," said the owner of the Half-Moon after the merriment this jibe evoked had subsided.

One day as I sat teaching my scholars, he entered and listened attentively, while I by chance had in hand a passage which, while I was explaining, suggested to me a simile from the circensian races, not without a jibe at those who were enthralled by that folly.

But do not think I jibe or jeer

Even now as I look at you, you laugh and jibe!"

The end of your long boom is liable to trip as you roll and wallow through the waves, and every time you rise on the crest of a big comber your rudder comes out of water, and your bow swings around until there is imminent danger of an accidental jibe.

We were not shipping any water, except now and then a bucketful of foam and spray blown from the crest of a wave; but the boat was yawing in a very dangerous way as she mounted the high, white-capped rollers, and I was afraid that sooner or later she would swing around so far that even with the most skilful steering a jibe would be inevitable.

For passing youths who forget there is a morrow jibe at the culprits and thus plant the seeds of dissensions which bloom in fights.

"Ef Rosey," he continued, "hez read in v'yages and tracks in Eyetalian and French countries of such chaps ez you and kalkilates you're the right kind to tie to, mebbee it mout hev done if you'd been livin' over thar in a pallis, but somehow it don't jibe in over here and agree with a shipand that ship lying comf'able ashore in San Francisco.

"I'm a thing they'll jibe at and bait any way.

You don't go to an art dealer's and buy a very valuable Rembrandt for its marketable value, and then, afterwards, jibe at the picture and reproach the art dealer.

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