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Definition of Quirks
1. quirk [v] - See also: quirk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quirks
Literary usage of Quirks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged, Containing an by James Thorne (1876)
""broken and uneven," though 'quirks' and 'jigs' were rather strong words.
A passage descriptive of the chapel service in Charles ..."
2. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"390 L. quirks of Music, broken and uneven ME iv. 143 The /. Militia of the lower
sky Л'.Л. i. 42 The /. Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair A*./., i. ..."
3. Military Geography for Professionals and the Public by John M. Collins (2000)
"REGIONAL quirks Geographic regions on Earth and in space are reasonably homogeneous
areas containing distinctive topography, climate, vegetation, ..."
4. The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's by John Lawson Stoddard (1910)
"Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a
mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven. ..."
5. Great Truths by Great Authors (1856)
"I HAVE felt so many quirks of Joy, and Grief, That the first face of neither, on
the start, Can woman me unto 't. .— Young. in zeal for human amity, Denies, ..."
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