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  • And Dr. Quain is at such a distance; besides the/delicacy/about sending for him, when he absolutely refuses his fee!

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • Dr. Quain is going to Paris in a few days to superintend the journey, and hopes that when he (Lord A.) gets home to the Grange, he will make more rapid progress in gaining strength, than he has done hitherto.

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • She is the author of four novels, Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, The Sweet-Smelling Jasmine, The Telling of Angus Quain, and Video Dreams, four non-fiction books, and short stories published and broadcast locally and by the BBC.

    2009 April 20 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • She is the author of four novels, Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, The Sweet-Smelling Jasmine, The Telling of Angus Quain, and Video Dreams, four non-fiction books, and short stories published and broadcast locally and by the BBC.

    How to run a successful Literary Festival. Audio Interview with Franschhoek’s Jenny Hobbs 2009

  • Physics at Leeds (1909-1915), Quain Professor of Physics at

    William Bragg - Biography 1967

  • George sought and found solace in his books by selling his Kirke, his Quain and his Stone to Mr. Schoole of the Charing Cross Road; his microscope he temporarily lodged with

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • "Enthralled, a story of international life setting forth the curious circumstances concerning Lord Cloden and Oswald Quain": [23] a mad

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Quain is indeed the half-brother of the lady who desires to marry him.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Then she too remembered Quain, and remembered also in the slowly paling dusk that the house would soon be stirring.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • Quain now -- her husband had a good many dull books, most of them his

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

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