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quiet orderliness subordination
ANT: Union, allegiance, fealty, pacification, appeasement, quiet, orderliness, subordination, obedience.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

question of seeing
It is not a question of seeing this summarily.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

quantity of subsistence
The inhabitants of the one must always enjoy a much greater quantity of subsistence than what their own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation, could afford.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

quantity of stock
In a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals, enjoy a good deal of security, the poor, or the owners of small capitals, enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Queen of Scots
There were buried in this church, Margaret Queen of Scots; Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, translated from their old church by Oldborne; Robert de Attabeto, Earl of Bellimon; Dame Isabel, wife to Sir Roger Bygot, earl marshal; William and Jane Huse, children to Dame Ellis, Countess of Arundell; and by them lieth Dame Ellis, daughter to the Earl Warren, and after Countess of Arundell; Dame Ide, wife to Sir Waltar ——, daughter to Ferrers of Chartley; Richard de Brewes; Richard Strange, son to Roger Strange; Elizabeth, daughter to Sir Barthol.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

quarterings or sometimes
It is evident that unless one was authorised by the rule or reason governing the matter—whatever such rule or reason may have been—in using a mantling of gules and ermine, the dominating colour (not as a rule the metal) of the coat of arms (or of one of the quarterings), or sometimes of the crest if the tinctures of arms and crest were not
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Queen of Scots
The defaced monuments in this church were these; First in the choir, of the Lady Margaret, daughter to Philip, king of France, and wife to Edward I., foundress of this new church, 1317; of Isabel, queen, wife to Edward II., daughter to Philip, king of France, 1358; John of the Tower; Queen of Scots, wife to David Bruce, daughter to Edward II., died in Hartford castle, and was buried by Isabel her mother 1362; William Fitzwarren, baron, and Isabel his wife, sometime Queen of Man; Isabel, daughter to Edward III., wedded to the Lord Courcy of France, after created Earl of Bedford; Elianor, wife to John, Duke of Britaine: Beatrix, Duchess of Britaine, daughter to Henry III.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Quite oppressive said
Quite oppressive,” said the man next him.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Queen of Sheba
That day the Pendlebury gasoline carryall come buzzin' up to the front platform and Letitia steps out, grand as the Queen of Sheba, of course.
— from The Postmaster by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Queen of Scots
The Queen of Scots, it was asserted by one of the travellers, had been found guilty of writing a letter to Philip, in which she offered to transfer all England to the Spaniard should her son refuse to embrace the Catholic faith.
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

quantity of silver
The news of this discovery soon spread in the neighbourhood, and a number of people having joined in the search, a large quantity of silver articles were found in the sand.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

Queen of Sheba
Queen of Sheba, 117.
— from The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

quality of stupidity
I shall risk the ac- cusation of bad taste if I say that, impressive as it is, the Chateau de Chambord seemed to me to have al- together a little of that quality of stupidity.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James

quinine or senna
With herbs, again, whilst the utility of some, such as quinine or senna, was a matter of experience, others were equally prized out of pure fancy.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

quantity of shade
The climate is either too hot or too cool, too moist or too dry, for a large proportion of them, and they seldom get the exact quantity of shade or the right quality of soil to suit them.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

Qualities of Soul
These Habits and Qualities of Soul and Body render this Personage so extraordinary, that he appears to have nothing in him but what every Man should have in him, the Exertion of his very self, abstracted from the Circumstances in which Fortune has placed him.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

quality of sound
The more gradual the movement the more beautiful the quality of sound.
— from Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Harriette Brower


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