Quern

I get vaguely irritated when my name comes out as "Quern", so think how Andrew Selous Tory MP for SW Beds must feel being called "Andrew Sell-Out".

Archive 2006-11-01 Kerron Cross 2006

I get vaguely irritated when my name comes out as "Quern", so think how Andrew Selous Tory MP for SW Beds must feel being called "Andrew Sell-Out".

Andrew Sell-Out Kerron Cross 2006

Come and see our new Quern on Aug 15 and 16th at, 2710 DeCew Rd. in St Catharines.

Should You Find Yourself in St. Catharines, ON baggyk 2009

Crumb-snatcher am I called, and I am the son of Bread-nibbler — he was my stout-hearted father — and my mother was Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

They started off all together with their sledges, but when they got a long distance from the camp and very near to the storehouse, those from Exaluq suddenly fell upon the others and slew them, for the men from Quern had never suspected that there was any ill-feeling.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

One summer it happened that the men from Quern had killed many deer, while those from Exaluq had caught but a few.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

Now one of the young men had married a girl from Quern, and he went to her house that night as usual, and she received him kindly, for she believed what she had heard about the men of her party straying off.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

Below, they could see the grey roof of Quern House jutting out of its fir plantation, with a column of smoke going up from the kitchen chimney as straight as a wand.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

Do look it up -- I know there's a copy in the library at Quern, in the little bookshelf just on the left of the fireplace.

Mrs. Miniver 1939