"Quid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Phrixus olim ibi reliquerat. Constituit igitur Pelias Iasoni negotium dare ut hoc vellere potiretur; cum enim res esset magni periculi, eum in itinere periturum esse sperabat. Iasonem igitur ad se arcessivit, et eum cohortatus quid fieri vellet docuit. Ille etsi intellegebat rem esse difficillimam, ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... the bottom as ever unreefed a clean topsail or hung out a ship's canvas to the wind; I saw them all go down as I lashed myself to the jib." He groaned deeply; but speedily assuming a gayer tone, requested a quid and a quiet hammock. "My lights are nearly stove in,—my head hangs as loose as a Dutchman's shrouds; a night's sleep will make ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... reasonably expect to hear from her. He counted the days, the hours that intervened. Her note came at last, and it made his blood leap as the clerk flung it out with a grin. "She's blessed yeh this time!" It was a red-headed clerk, and his grin, by reason of a quid of tobacco in his thin cheek, was particularly offensive. Bradley felt an impulse to call him out of his box and ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... Quid mihi Celsus agit? monitus multumque monendus Privatas ut quaerat opes, et tangere vitet ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... Castro, De Justa Haeret. Punitione, 1547, p. 119. Iure Divino obligantur eos extirpare, si absque maiori incommodo possint (Lancelottus, Haereticum quare per Catholicum quia, 1615, p. 579). Ubi quid indulgendum sit, ratio semper exacta habeatur, an Religioni Ecclesiae, et Reipublicae quid vice mutua accedat quod majoris sit momenti, et plus prodesse possit (Pamelius, De Relig. diversis non admittendis, 1589, p. 159). Contagium istud sic grassatum est, ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
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