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 Duke!" followed by a resounding chorus— "Hoch sollen sie leben!
From Sunrise by William Black
The milk is immediately turned into leben, or boiled to be shaken into butter.
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
"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 Montague Glass
I cum tuh Madison forty-five yeah ago, and I bought one acre, and built me a house on it, an' razed my leben chillun dyah.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various
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