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  • He yammered through a bunch of Ana Ivanovic's opening match about how Sam Querry is a dog.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • He yammered through a bunch of Ana Ivanovic's opening match about how Sam Querry is a dog.

    Hey Bristol: Chris Fowler talking is NOT Tennis! 2008

  • In him we recognise, among many borrowings and echoes of other authors, Graham Greene's Querry from the novel of that title.

    The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx – review 2011

  • Greene liked to find unusual names – Bendrix, Querry – for his protagonists, so his refusal to name the alcoholic Mexican priest on the run from the anti-clerical authorities is significant.

    Ten of the best nameless protagonists in literature 2010

  • God knows he liked them, the Indians … God knows he still likes them when they have the faces of Louis Owens, Ron Querry, Sherman Alexie, his writer friends.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • God knows he liked them, the Indians … God knows he still likes them when they have the faces of Louis Owens, Ron Querry, Sherman Alexie, his writer friends.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • For, the Querry having compassed what he most coveted, and fearing to forfelte his life by delay, when his amorous desire was indifferently satisfied: returned backe as he came, the sleepy waiting woman not so much as looking on him, but rather glad, that she might get her to rest againe.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Querry, who partly saw, but felt what was done to him; perceived plainely (being a subtill ingenious fellow) for what intent he was thus marked.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Among them all he had sought, yet could not find any likelihood, whereby to gather a grounded probability; he came to this Querry, whose heart and pulses laboured so strongly, that he said to himselfe, Yea mary, this is th man that did the deede.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But, as we see it oftentimes come to passe, that by how much the lower hope declineth, so much the higher love ascendeth; even so fell it out with this poore Querry; for, most irkesome was it to him, to endure the heavy waight of his continuall oppressions, not having any hope at all of the very least mitigation.

    The Decameron 2004

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