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Examples
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Quiller is contacted by a man, asking him to go straight from one completed task, to another, and he is tired.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Quiller Memorandum - Adam Hall Blue Tyson 2008
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"By the way, did you ever know a man called Quiller who had some fishing craft in these parts twenty years ago?"
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My main goal is to shorten my sentences or as Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch said: “Murder your darlings.”
Writing Workshop: What are YOU writing? | Write to Done 2009
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In this they seem to be following the lead of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, whose On the Art of Writing (1916) recommended the following (at #23):
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"That's industry standard, according to the Working Group on Bridesmaids Indentures of Gray's Inn of Court," Quiller-Couch interjected.
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Quiller-Couch responded as I expected he would, drawing himself up with a look of outraged umbrage, or umbraged outrage.
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That was Quiller-Couch for you; the sort of gratuitous, extra-legal filigree that clients loved but which was, strictly speaking, obiter dicta, legal window-dressing.
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I will wholeheartedly agree that your fight scenes hold up to anyone else's I've ever read, including Adam Hall's Quiller series, and any of the Modesty Blaise's which are some of my favorites.
Deadly R Us Steve Perry 2010
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Quiller-Couch seemed to sense that we were determined to prevail, and stood up to greet us.
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As we reached the top floor the elevator doors slid open and, after announcing ourselves, we were ushered into a sprawling office that included the couch on which Quiller-Couch napped after lunch each day.
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