jinnee
Example Sentences
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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
When the great jinnee of music had once more swept out of the hall, the Sphinx turned with shining eyes to the waiter: 'Take,' she said, 'take these tears to the bandmaster.
From Prose Fancies (Second Series) by Le Gallienne, Richard
You could do this all day, and the jinnee never failed to hear and obey.
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
If Schiller and Goethe dare once to come out of their exile, then Nestroy's plum-pudding jinnee steps in their path, and they of course modestly give way to him.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
