jibbey

Updated: May 17, 2025

Laura Lean Jibbey, peanut brittle, a little almond cream on the neck muscles, dishes unwashed, half an hour's talk with the iceman, reading a package of old letters, a couple of pickles and two bottles of malt extract, one hour peeking through a hole in the window shade into the flat across the air-shaft that's about all there is to it.

O. Henry - The Four Million

So he laughed again, and said somethin' about sending for Laura Lean Jibbey, and then we started. The checkerboard feller was standing up when we opened the door. "Hello, Petey!" says he, cool as a cucumber, and sticking out a foot and a half of wrist with a hand at the end of it. Now, it takes considerable to upset Peter Theodosius Brown.

Joseph Crosby Lincoln - Cape Cod Stories