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  • “Hish! be quaite, cheaile, weel you, and I weel tale you everything presently.”

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • “Be quaite, Maud,” whispered Madame, with an awful adjuration, which I do not care to set down.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • You are proud, little demoiselle; you must become, on the contrary, quaite humble.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • “You fool, Maud, weel you come with me? see wat you are doing,” I began to scream, shriek after shriek, which the man attempted to drown with loud hooting, peals of laughter, forcing his handkerchief against my mouth, while Madame continued to bawl her exhortations to “be quaite” in my ear.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • I did not think you would be so unkain, Maud; but it is impossible, you must see — quaite impossible.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • So, the width across the isthmus could very well be ten of Mrs. Cotton's paces, no matter what sort of a woman she was; and it could just as well be the distance that "a man will quaite a tileshard," be a tileshard what it may.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • But this Nautica refused to accept as satisfactory because we did not know what a "tileshard" was nor how far a man would "quaite" one.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • On his part, he pinned his faith to the statement of Strachey, a man who had lived in James Towne and who had said that the isthmus was no broader than "a man will quaite a tileshard."

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • The lass stood white an 'quaite at the far side o' the bed.

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

  • "I shall be quaite delaighted," drawled out Tracy.

    St. Winifred's, or The World of School 1867

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