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said Quilp looking contemptuously at
‘That I should have been blinded,’ said Quilp looking contemptuously at him, ‘by a mere shallow gambler!’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

she quite lost courage and
It increased his anxiety that his mother stood with her hand on the door-latch, uncertain whether to stay and see the result or not, and that at last she quite lost courage and stole quietly out.
— from Ovind: A Story of Country Life in Norway by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Stanstead Q L C A
Worden Katevale Hatley Stanstead Q L. C. A. T. de Lagorgendière Kazubazua Aylwin Ottawa Q Kay Settlement, W. O. Westmoreland N B Alexander Hughes Keady Derby Grey, N.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

such quixotic little craft as
Did Davies think that Admiralties had time to waste on smoothing the road for such quixotic little craft as his, in all its inquisitive ramblings?
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

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