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  • Adela Quested in A Passage to India is making up her hysterical allegation about what happened in the Marabar caves, but Daphne is so eager to shield her genuine Indian lover that she refuses to testify about the real rapists who came upon them when they were lying together.

    Victoria’s Secret 2008

  • Melinia, who Quested to end a war between feuding factions within the land of Atridia itself.

    The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010

  • Adela Quested in A Passage to India is making up her hysterical allegation about what happened in the Marabar caves, but Daphne is so eager to shield her genuine Indian lover that she refuses to testify about the real rapists who came upon them when they were lying together.

    Victoria’s Secret 2008

  • Researchers Dr Digby Quested of the Maudsley Hospital in London and Lillian Schwartz of Bell Laboratories in the USA used the most sophisticated computer techniques, independently of each other, to match the face of the portrait with the face of the artist and the result was a perfect fit31.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Researchers Dr Digby Quested of the Maudsley Hospital in London and Lillian Schwartz of Bell Laboratories in the USA used the most sophisticated computer techniques, independently of each other, to match the face of the portrait with the face of the artist and the result was a perfect fit31.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Quested should be transformed from an English girl on a picnic to arrogant Europe straying into the heart of the East and getting lost there.

    The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

  • As a rule no Englishwoman entered the College except for official functions, and if he invited Mrs. Moore and Miss Quested to tea, it was because they were new-comers who would view everything with an equal if superficial eye, and would not turn on a special voice when speaking to his other guests.

    A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

  • Moore and Miss Quested when they were alone — by this device Ronny, their official protector, could be circum vented.

    A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

  • This aspect of the case had always seemed dubious to Miss Quested, and she had asked the police not to develop it.

    A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

  • Miss Quested learnt it with anxiety, for she had not decided whether she liked dignified men.

    A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

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