quillets

For over ten years now you have obfuscated and quibbled; turned to quiddities, quillets, cases, tenures, and tricks.

David Horton: Quiddities and Quillets 2008

Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.

Love’s Labour ’s Lost 2004

After his graduation at the end of the scholastic year, 1843, the law for a short while lured him away, to its digests, its quiddits and quillets, abstracts and briefs.

The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century George Henry Miles

Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his _cases_, his _tenures_, and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave, now, to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his _action of battery_?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?

Hamlet 1919

Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?

Quotations 1919

Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?

Quotations 1919

Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?

Act V. Scene I. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1914

Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.

Act IV. Scene III. Love’s Labour’s Lost 1914

Nor sound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flamen, 164

Act IV. Scene III. Timon of Athens 1914