leben
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of leben
C17: from Arabic laban
Example Sentences
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“I’m in dry-goods business twenty years—fifteen on Grand Stritt and five on Graham Am-yer and never ins leben do I see a seven months so big.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
On this account these investigators suppose it to be related to those described in the paragraphs on fermented milks, leben, matzoon, etc., and which are regarded by Kuntze as being identical.
From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Loudon Douglas
An' whin de king uprise, all de congergation crowd round li'l' black Mose, an' dey am about leben millium an' a few lift over.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
Solly leben, did I keep it back—the five dollars?
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
"Minnie leben," Morris cried, as he clasped her in his arms, "what is it?"
From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass
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