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Her name was Mae-che-ne-mock-qua, and she was beautiful as the sunrise of a summer morning.— The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884
And the old chief took from the lodge-fire a piece of burnt stick, and, wetting it, he rubbed the feet of his son with the blackened charcoal, and he named him Sat-Sia-qua, or The Blackfeet, and evermore Sat-Sia-qua was a mighty hunter, and his arrows flew straight to the buffalo, and his feet moved swift in the chase.— The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America
Greek, kalia; Lat., cella 37. qua (qua-itl), head_.— Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
I was afraid they might start to quack--qua-qua Indeed there was a certain fear, even madness, in the eyes of the artist--the madness which shortly led him to his untimely grave Old man, it is necessary to have something beautiful.— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories
Its position as being the chief artery of human activity, is incomparable, but the town--qua town--has this point in common with all huge agglomerations of commercial buildings.— Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville

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