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  • Tradere, nulla fides quin "-- his" Quin, "he repeated.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • My Sister Quin is actually named Quinzhaddhi (My dad was on a bad acid trip and wanted a name as unusuall as mine * dead serious* for the new baby)

    When Mary Ain't Good Enough 2007

  • His Auberon Quin is so shortsighted that colors in his sight are detached from objects and take on a heraldry of their own.

    Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

  • To be sure, as William Blissett has noted (107-13), the character of Auberon Quin is a satire on Max Beerbohm, to the extent that even Graham Robertson's illustrations of The Napoleon of Notting Hill are illustrations of Max Beerbohm.

    Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

  • And with the recovery of the name Quin's mind did another somersault.

    Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • Cæsar Varick, but called Quin, on the night in which the burglary was committed, entered Peggy's room through the window.

    History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870

  • "Quin," -- her voice dropped so low he could scarcely hear it, -- "have you ever forgiven me for the way I behaved in New York?"

    Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • "Quin," she said, "I am worried sick about Nell and Harold Phipps."

    Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • Vandermeer called Quin’s “a surreal mélange of images and characters in which each element is lucid in its madness.”

    Quin's Shanghai Circus adamosf 2005

  • Vandermeer called Quin’s “a surreal mélange of images and characters in which each element is lucid in its madness.”

    Archive 2005-03-01 adamosf 2005

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