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qualities pardon said Kerry
Ye daft loon, what ails ye?” “I ax your pardon, and the qualities pardon,” said Kerry, with an expression of abject misery for his unceremonious 'entrée.'
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

quite pardonable since Kalulu
“That is how the Watuta obtain their fire,” said Kalulu to Abdullah, with an air of superiority, which the latter thought was quite pardonable, since Kalulu did really produce a fire on which meat might be cooked for the benefit of his friend Simba.
— from My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

quite private something known
Further, I have been careful to make no allusion whatever to them either in casual conversation or in anything else that I may have written, my desire being that this page of my life should be kept quite private, something known only to myself.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Quietus Polemos shel Kitos
The Jewish sources call this second rebellion "the war of Quietus" (Polemos shel Kitos).
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

quickened pants she kept
Her breath came in quickened pants, she kept her eyes fixed in a straining eagerness on the tall figure looming darkly ahead.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

quarrelling playing soldiers keeping
And then he began to notice other things—the goodness of the poor to the poor; game struggles with grinding poverty; incredible cheerfulness under drab surroundings and in face of imminent starvation; the loyalty of the wife to the husband who ill-used her; the good-humoured resignation of the shrew's husband; the splendid family pride of the family who, though they lived in one room, considered very properly that one room (with rent paid punctually) constitutes a castle; the whip-round among a gang of workmen when a mate was laid by and his whole family rendered destitute; and finally the children, whom neither dingy courts, nor crowded alleys, nor want of food, nor occasional beatings, nor absence of any playthings save tiles, half-bricks, and dead kittens, could prevent from running, skipping, shouting, quarrelling, playing soldiers, keeping shop, and making believe generally, just as persistently and inconsequently as their more prosperous little brethren were doing, much more expensively, not many streets away.
— from Pip : A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay


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