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Similar words: gibbousribbonblue ribbonribbon developmentshibbolethgibbetgibbergibberishMeaning: ['gɪbən]  n. 1. English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) 2. smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies. 
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1. The lessons of Gibbon are put away.
2. The ironwork was cast in Dudley by Benjamin Gibbon and transported by water, eventually reaching the banks of the Stroudwater canal.
3. The one enormous danger to a young gibbon that its father can guard against is murder by another male gibbon.
4. I am conversant with Gibbon, Toynbee, your better class of historians.
5. But soon the influence of Hume and Gibbon, Rousseau and Voltaire brought every authority into question.
6. Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon is a testing version.
7. What is the Black Gibbon staring at?
8. The larynx of the gibbon deviates from the basic plan found in the Pongidae and man, thus reflecting its special phylogenetic position.
9. In the 1770s Edward Gibbon had little difficulty imagining Islamic theology being taught in Oxford and across Britain—if only the battle of Tours-Poitiers in 732 had turned out differently.
10. Gibbon adapted to the forest with its long lithe arms.
11. Edward Gibbon is the greatest British historian in the 18th century, who is also prominent in Western rationalism historiography.
12. Another was reading Gibbon unabridged. The one who'd been subsisting on Yoplait and radishes was in the bathroom, changing her hair color again.
13. Gibbon, however, is of opinion that theirs was a valid marriage.
14. Edward Gibbon considered the whole history of Byzantine lasting over 1000 years as a miserable experience.
15. A gibbon is better adapted than a man for life in a low gravitational force.
16. The hoolock gibbon mainly distributes in the mid-mountain humid evergreen broad-leaved forest.
17. Mostly, she was off; travelling the world with Mr Gibbon,(sentencedict .com) her constant companion for twenty-nine of those thirty years.
18. At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat.
19. An important early modern historian was the British scholar Edward Gibbon.
20. If you go through college without reading Thucydides, Herodotus and Gibbon, you'll have been cheated out of a great repertoire of comparisons.
21. Vain was that ambition, surely not an ignoble one, to set his name beside those of Gibbon and Mommsen.
22. Human beings and all their works are subject, as Edward Gibbon said, to "the vicissitudes of fortune."
23. Gibbon species include the siamang, the white-handed or lar gibbon, and the hoolock gibbons.
24. Some liana, widely distributed in the study area, was possibly the major food resource of black crested gibbon.
25. Barring gunpowder and the printing press, his world and Hadrian's were close enough to let Gibbon swap breeches for a toga and barely notice the difference.
26. Making his own choice of the best time to have been alive, Edward Gibbon, author of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (1776-89), didn't have much doubt.
27. My sober mind was no longer intoxicated by the fumes of politics(Edward Gibbon.
28. "the increasing hatred, which retarded the execution of his great designs" (Edward Gibbon).
29. In Lausanne, they paid theirrespects at the house of Edward Gibbon, where he penned his revered epichistory, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
30. A great?grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon, lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendents.
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