English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

Usage examples of gibbon.

Lieutenant Gibbons had tried to kill Sharpe and how Patrick Harper had bayoneted the Lieutenant.

Many of his observations have been found as applicable to the work of Gibbon as to that of Le Beau.

In free-fall, he brachiated from handhold to handhold like an armored gibbon.

If we reckon the scepticism that Gibbon says characterized his time to have declined in ours, and if even a little of the rampant gullibility he attributes to late classical times is left over in ours, should we not expect something like demons to find a niche in the popular culture of the present?

As a madrigalist he was inferior to Morley, Wilbye and Gibbons, though even in this branch of his art he often displays great charm and individuality.

Ward Gibbon heard with horror from his son how the other kids at school called him Jungle Jim and Jim Nastics and Jimbo-Bimbo.

Gibbon roused himself to give instructions to the omniform utility robots who came to take it off.

I had to lead him by his trunk, out the Pachyderm House door, through which he barely fitted and where his presence scattered those conniving gibbons.

That siamang is eating one now--Symphalangus syndactylus--the black gibbon of Sumatra, largest of the gibbons.

Around them were the ordinary daylight sounds of the forest, to which they were now so accustomed--the raucous cries of birds, the terrific booming of siamang gibbons, the chattering of the lesser simians--but no sound came from the tiger.

Among the minority of adult male mammals that do offer their offspring paternal care are polygynous male zebras and gorillas with harems of females, male gibbons paired off with females as solitary couples, and saddleback tamarin monkeys, of which two adult males are kept as a harem by one polyan-drous adult female.

When the history of our decline and fall comes to be Written by some Australian Gibbon, the historian may choose the British bully and turfite to set alongside of the awful creatures who preyed on the rich fools of wicked old Rome.

The paragraphs upon it, Dean Milman considers the most uncandid in all the history, and they certainly do Gibbon no credit.

As I am a supersaturated Dickensite, I pounced on your book and read it, as Wegg read Gibbon and other authors, right slap through.

Guy Gibbon in his life was his first encounter with the Wyke entity, and like many a person before and since, he had not the faintest idea he had done so.