quaere

• But quaere, Lord Coke being contra, whose opinion it is ever dangerous to neglect These words are intended to take away the peremptory challenge of thirty-five jurors. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies
• But quaere, if they should be imitated more than as to other breaches of trust in general 2. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies
• A number of instances of Q for quaere are given by A.C. Clark, The Descent of Manuscripts_, Oxford 1918, p. 35 Sidenote: Syllabification Syllables are divided after a vowel or diphthong except where such a division involves beginning the next syllable with a group of consonants. —  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York
• And, quaere, was not the population of Athens greater two centuries before Demetrius, in the days of Pericles 8] Having no Sophocles at hand, I quote from memory, not pretending therefore to exactness: but the sense is what I state 9] Whose version, I do not know. —  Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
• Or quaere is the word terjemaniyeh (dragomanish) here a mistranscription for turkumaniyeh (Turcoman FN#50] i.e. gilded FN#51] i.e. sperma hominis FN#52] Syn. good breeding FN#53] i.e. those women of equal age and rank with herself FN#54] i.e. vaunting himself of offering richer presents FN#55] Apparently Zebid, the ancient capital of the province of Tehameh in Yemen, a town on the Red Sea, about sixty miles north of Mocha. —  Tales from the Arabic — Complete

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