bilbo

Example Sentences

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Hence Falstaff describes himself in the buck-basket as— "Compassed, like a good bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Sir Iohn, and Maister mine, I combat craue Of this same laten bilbo.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

I have brought you a couple of dictionaries; let us see if your highness can find out the Latin for bilbo.

From The Lady of Lyons by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Castaldo calls the bilbo a “fated aspic,” upon the edge of which his “eye-balls crack to look,” and makes a raving exit from the stage, to a roaring laugh from the audience.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various

Out with your bilbo and maintain your words.'

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir