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Qui chavates cousoit son
chavetier Bauduins s'arresta, Qui chavates cousoit; son pain en garigna: Jones fu et plaisans, apertement ouvra.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

que ce choix soit
Peut-être, mais mon souci, c'est que ce choix soit conscient et non subi.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

qui cum causam sit
Ut, si qui, cum causam sit acturus, in itinere aut in ambulatione secum ipse meditetur, aut si quid aliud attentius cogitet, non reprehendatur, at hoc idem si in convivio faciat, inhumanus videatur inscitia temporis.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

qui comme chacun sait
Quoi qu'il en soit, si la chose devait prendre de l'ampleur, j'ai sous la main, si je puis dire (dans des cartons), une petite fortune de toutes sortes en "produits Gutenberg" Avis aux collectionneurs qui, comme chacun sait, sont pour le progrès!….
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

quel capestro che solea
Acri ne' mercatante in terra di Soldano; ne' sommo officio ne' ordini sacri guardo` in se', ne' in me quel capestro che solea fare
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

quite circular carried straight
Sir George Grey and Mr. Eyre testify that the natives dug wells fourteen or fifteen feet deep and two feet in diameter at the bore—dug them in the sand—wells that were “quite circular, carried straight down, and the work beautifully executed.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

quoque cura Conditione super
But what is yet more wonderful, that most learned critic takes notice also, in his illustrations on the First Epistle of the Second Book, that as the poetry of the Romans and that of the Grecians had the same beginning at feasts and thanksgiving (as it has been observed), and the old comedy of the Greeks (which was invective) and the satire of the Romans (which was of the same nature) were begun on the very same occasion, so the fortune of both in process of time was just the same—the old comedy of the Grecians was forbidden for its too much licence in exposing of particular persons, and the rude satire of the Romans was also punished by a law of the Decemviri, as Horace tells us in these words:— “ Libertasque recurrentes accepta per annos Lusit amabiliter ; donec jam sævus apertam In rabiem verti cæpit jocus , et per honestas Ire domos impune minax : doluere cruento Dente lacessiti ; fuit intactis quoque cura Conditione super communi : quinetiam lex , Pænaque lata , malo quæ nollet carmine quenquam Describi : vertere modum , formidine fustis Ad benedicendum delectandumque redacti .”
— from Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden

quam comæ captivæ seems
But in this case all the wit of the advice is lost; and the expression, “eris cultior quam comæ captivæ,” seems to me to be very improper.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

qua cedente cum Sulla
Quibus factis quadrigae hostium aut implicitae palis aut exterritae clamore telisque in suos conversae sunt turbaverunt que Macedonum structuram: qua cedente, cum Sulla instaret
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

quite convincing Cheyne said
“That is quite convincing,” Cheyne said, with somewhat suspicious gravity.
— from The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss

quati cuati cuati sihu
Fire, quati, cuati, cuati, sihu.
— from The American Race A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

qclarum cernere solem
Di tibi pro meritis tantis, Augusta propago, Præmia digna ferant, quæ vinctam mille catenis Heu duris solvis, qclarum cernere solem E tenebris tantis et
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Giorgio Vasari

Quel claretto Che si
Benedetto Quel claretto Che si spilla in Avignone.-- Bacco in Toscana.
— from The Desultory Man Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances. Vol. CXLVII. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

quoque cura Conditione super
Doluere cruento Dente lacessiti; fuit intactis quoque cura Conditione super communi; quin etiam lex Poenaque lata, malo quae nollet carmine quemquam Describi; vertere modum, formidine fustis Ad bene dicendum delectandumque redacti
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

qualem cernis crevisse sed
Hinc qualem cernis crevisse: sed ut mea certus Tempora cognoscas, dura mere, scias.
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

quel cibo che saziando
Mentre che piena di stupore e lieta l'anima mia gustava di quel cibo che, saziando di se', di se' asseta, se' dimostrando di piu` alto tribo ne li atti, l'altre tre si fero avanti, danzando al loro angelico caribo.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri


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