jinnee
Example Sentences
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There were signs that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to stuff Jesse Jones, the jinnee he created, back in a jar.
From Time Magazine Archive
His enemies, who abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your wife does not need a jinnee to carry her where she wants to go.
From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r
This pain localized itself especially in their heads, round which some jinnee of the waste had riveted red-hot iron bands.
From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan
Brown moved the lamp, and its beams fell on a rifleman who stood close beside him at attention—like a jinnee formed suddenly from empty blackness.
From Told in the East by Mundy, Talbot
