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Definition of Quines
1. quine [n] - See also: quine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quines
Literary usage of Quines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... 1789, 4to. quines of the City of Bristol. Bris- age to Italy, in which all
the famous lious history.'—Park. 1A motly compound of real and ..."
2. An Embassy to the Court of St. James's in 1840 by Guizot (François) (1862)
"quines I had made, and of the results they led me to anticipate : "London, July
11, 1840. " To the President of this Council, "Sir,—Since the proposition of ..."
3. Report of the Oral Discussion Between Mr. M.W. Green, Minister of the Church by M. W. Green, Thomas Walker, Clarence Pitman (1878)
"quines, and with a view to establishing the special divine origin of Christianity,
the question, How came Christianity into the world? ..."
4. Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth: Edited from His Autograph by Edward, John Gough Nichols, Roxburghe Club (1857)
"... recommendations to the Quines grace and to your lordship, willing me to signify
to your lordship that he is so mouche bound to you that he monst nides ..."
5. The Cloister and the Hearth: Or, Maid, Wife, and Widow; a Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1861)
"Curse the quines," said he. And not a word аи dinner-time but "curse the quines!
... '"Quines? why that was dogs. And I knew not even that much ? ..."
6. The Cloister and the Hearth: Or, Maid, Wife, and Widow; a Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1861)
"Curse the quines," said he. And not a word aA dinner-time but "curse the quines
I" ' I ... '"Quines? why that was dogs. And I knew- not even that much ? ..."
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