Qualm

Nostalgia plays a part in this, and anyone reading "Mixed Feelings" or "Qualm" ( "Warren G. Harding invented the word 'normalcy'") or countless other poems about the rural American past will feel Ashbery testing discredited modes like nostalgia and sentimentality, the way he tests every tone and register for power.

Papa 2009

My young Friend, Mr. Vernon, has never had the least Qualm of the Sea Sickness, since We came aboard.

John Adams diary 47, 13 February 1778 - 26 April 1779 1961

Why you draw your Breath as hard as a broken-winded Racer; some Qualm I suppose about this neglected Island.

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

'There he goes I'faith; he seem'd as if he had a Qualm just now; but he never goes without a Dram of Conscience-water about him to set Matters right again.

Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) Anonymous

Qualm of Conscience came athwart his [Phillips's] Stomach, and he said to his Companions, 'We have done him Injury enough already'; so order'd the Vessel immediately to be repair'd, and return'd her to the

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

Last year we played in Qualm, Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok.

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The Qualm, The Budgetary Shortfall, and The Gobbledegook.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1 1992