quod

• Prison was a sheep walk or the quod, Newgate was the King's Head Inn and its turnkeys were gaggers. —  Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
• It was thought at first that the phrase quod inter fedeles fidelis fuit, inter alienos pagana fuit had been dictated by the father as a jocose hint of the religious inconsistency of the girl; but such an explanation can hardly be accepted. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• I thought of you being dragged off by a couple of bobbies to quod, and of how she would suffer; and I remembered--which was a precious lucky thing for you--that there was no one to suffer on my account. —  The Woman's Way
• 4. What meaning are we to assign to the word Footnote 835: 'Magnis odoribus singulare:--quod ita redolet ore ructatum ut merito illi a palma nomen videatur impositum Let it be your care to provide as speedily as possible a stock of both these products of our country, and send them in ships to the Royal residence. —  The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
• They does things often for which some o' the poor 'ud be put in quod, an' no mercy showed 'em, an' yet 'cos they're kings they gits off. —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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