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
The fermentative changes occurring in the formation of the Egyptian leben have been investigated by Rist and Khoury,64 and also by Guerbet,65 who found that five organisms were normally present.
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 Douglas, Loudon
The keshk-leben is prepared by putting leben into the bourgoul instead of leaven; in other respects the process is the same.
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 Douglas, Loudon
"If they got such soup as this at the Waldorf, Minnie leben, I bet yer the least they would soak you for it is a dollar."
From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague
He was always alive to the grandeur of Goethe's words, Im Ganzen, Guten, Wahren, resolut zu leben, 'In wholeness, goodness, truth, strenuously to live.'
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John
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