Minards

Minards, 'is that the rascals don't even trouble to rob you neatly.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

'Well, you're a man of science,' Captain Minards replied doggedly,

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

'Do you know, Minards, I was at Tregarrick yesterday; and I think -- yes, without vaunting, I really think that the best of my pearmains yonder would have stood a fair chance of the prize for Table

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

_Providence_ schooner; he had acted as freighter for Minards 'men in their last run with the _Morning Star_; he had slipped over to Cork and brought home a Porthlooe prize illegally detained there; he was in

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Matthew, which falls on the twenty-first of September: and one year, on the morrow of St Matthew's Feast, the doctor, gazing pensively over his orchard gate at a noble tree of fruit, remarked to his friend and next-door neighbour, Captain Minards, late of the merchant service --

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Minards, by two years his junior, came along at a slow walk with hands deep in his trouser-pockets and no maiden on his arm or by his side, Obed felt no incongruity in challenging him.

Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Captain Minards arose, reached it down, loaded it with a charge of powder, and, stepping to the window, let bang at the trees ....

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

'Ay,' said Captain Minards, filling a pipe; 'you won it, right enough.'

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Farmer Minards slept on the other side of the house, and his room could only be reached by a flight of stairs running up from the kitchen.

Paul the Courageous Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

"Won't Farmer Minards be pleased when Paul tells him," said Michael after

Paul the Courageous Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895