Example Sentences

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‘I is not wishing to be called a fibster.’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

An old fibster, Hámid el-Fá'idi, declared that he would bring us from the adjacent hills a stone which, when heated, would pour forth metal like water—and never appeared again.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir