Lexicographical Neighbors of Quiblins
Literary usage of Quiblins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Come, leave your quiblins," Dorothy. DDL. Look out and see. [FACE goes to the
window.] SUB. Art thou in earnest ? DOL. 'Slight, Forty o' the neighbours are ..."
2. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Come, leave your quiblins,2 Dorothy. »» Dol. Look out and see. ,SuA. Art thou in
earnest? [FACE go?* to ifte window.] Forty o' the neighbours are about him, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(C.) 'This is some trick; come, leave your quiblins, Dorothy ; ' Ben Jonson,
Alchemist, iv. 4 (Face, oto Dol). ..."
4. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1913)
"Come, leave your quiblins, Dorothee. IIO Dol. Looke out, and see. [FACE goes to
the window.] Sub. Art thou in earnest ? Del. ..."
5. The Best Elizabethan Plays by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, John Webster (1892)
"Come, leave your quiblins,1 Dorothy. Dol. Look out and see. [FACE goes to the
window. Sub. Art thou in earnest? Dol. 'Slight, 220 Forty o' the neighbours ..."
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