jinnee
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There were signs that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to stuff Jesse Jones, the jinnee he created, back in a jar.
From Time Magazine Archive
His enemies, who abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lange gleefully corks the evil jinnee of Baghdad, then flies onto the green embrace of Aotearoa with the freed twelve.
From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver
Still, minds trained to believe in the magic carpet of Sulayman and quite virgin of any knowledge of machinery, could easily account for the airship's flying by means of jinnee concealed in its entrails.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
At any moment you might touch a convenient bell, and a waiter would appear at your elbow, like a jinnee from a jar, and accept an order with silent deference.
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
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