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  • When Albert also dies, Knud Erik defies Klara by quitt ing school and joining a ship's crew.

    Going to Sea Once More Sam Sacks 2011

  • Wolf Blitzer should objectively say what is right and tell her to quitt! john

    Clinton: Democratic nomination process needs to change 2008

  • Again, Boyle writes: "Suppose a Ball were in motion, & all the world should be on a sudden annihilated about it; why may not the motion of that Ball be continu'd? there being nothing to stop it; & if it be continu'd, we have a motion where the mobile dos not quitt the neighborhood of som bodys, and approach nearer to others" (BP 1: 3).

    Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

  • Allegiance, and of the Kings power in and out of Parliament, and the new notions of Ordinances, were to hard for him and did really intoxicate his understandinge, and made him quitt his owne, to follow thers, who he thought wish'd as well, and judged better then himselfe;

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • The treasurer appealed to the Assembly which acknowledged that "There is and hath been great neglect in the payment of the quitt rent."

    Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson

  • I doubt if they'll ventur to quitt with both, and I would fain hope that none of them will come soon.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • Aubrey says that R.leigh "standing in a stand at Sir R. Poyntz's parke at Acton, tooke a pipe of tobacco, which made the ladies quitt it till he had done."

    The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

  • Ha, Ha, Ha, I thinke soe, you would bee a willinge Marter to her that loves you, and doe you thinke that is a high expression of love, this showes how much you hated hir, that would quitt hir soe soone, besides leaveing hir this Legacie to dye of a Consumption for your sake.

    Three Hundred Years Hence 1836

  • Hier j'ai quitt‚ ma retraite, trŠs volontiers, pour (246) indulge myself with the sight of the Emperor of Russia.

    The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

  • Dieu! que je suis aise d'avoir quitt ` e Paris avant cette horrible sc ` ene! je me serais fait d ` echirer, ou mettre ` a la

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

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