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Definition of Queests
1. queest [n] - See also: queest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Queests
Literary usage of Queests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1903)
"... or queests !' Lady C declared herself vastly interested. She expressed her
determination to espouse the cause of the pigeons, begging the keeper to tell ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"... often putting to boil in water, what was designed to be roasted on the fire ;
like the head cooks of our kitchen, who often lard partridges, queests, ..."
3. The Tale Book: Second Series by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Mary Diana Dods, Baudry's European Library, Librairie des etrangers, French and English Library (1835)
"I'll give ye the sixpence, if you'll bring me the young birds," said the tempter; "
and it 'ill be doing good, too, for the queests are the ruin of the ..."
4. The Stranger in Ireland, Or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of by John Carr (1806)
"... which is of course granted, he raises the quilt, or rug, and in this state
queests, or enjoys a harmless chit-chat with her, and then retires. ..."
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