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• The duty of respect and gratitude to the feudal superior, the obligation to assist in endowing his daughter and equipping his son, the liability to his guardianship in minority, and many other similar incidents of tenure, must have been literally borrowed from the relations of Patron and Freedman under Roman law, that is, of quondam-master and quondam-slave. —  Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
• More impressed by the occurrence than he cared to admit, when at last, after some delay, he had secured his horse, and was once more in the saddle, he kept a sharp lookout for his quondam companion. —  Clarence
• I also take this opportunity as a quondam journalist to return to my brethren of the press, my sincere thanks for their uniform courtesy, both in reporting my lectures, and in the wide circulation they have given my doctrines in these interviews Fraternally WILLIAM WINDSOR PART II PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWS I. Physiognomy of Matrimony II. —  How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
• Let me make the effort, Galleygo Yes, Lord Geoffrey," for so the steward always called the quondam reefer, "you does handle him more like a quick-working boat, than any on us; and so I'll take an hopportunity of just overhauling our old lieutenant's young 'uns, and of seeing what sort of craft he has set afloat for the next generation Sir Gervaise," said the Duke, leaning over the chair, "here is Sir Wycherly Wychecombe, who once served a short time with us as a lieutenant; it was when you were in the Plantagenet. —  The Two Admirals
• Barrow received his letters of orders forthwith DCXXXV.--A GOOD TRANSLATION PISTOR erat quondam, laborando qui fregit collum Qui fregit collum, collum fregitque suum Thus translated There was a baker heretofore, with labor and great pain Did break his neck, and break his neck, and break his neck again DCXXXVI.--MAD QUAKERS A MAD Quaker belongs to a small and rich sect; and is, therefore, of greater importance than any other mad person of the same degree in life DCXXXVII.--BACON A MALEFACTOR, under sentence of death, pretending that he was related to him, on that account petitioned Lord Chancellor Bacon for a reprieve_. —  The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings

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