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  • The dialogue between Schürer and Quiney is frequently jousting and well-played in the English dub, which features Richard Johnson in a few roles including the brothers Dalmar and a couple of other British voices that sounded very familiar, but which I couldn't finally identify.

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  • The dialogue between Schürer and Quiney is frequently jousting and well-played in the English dub, which features Richard Johnson in a few roles including the brothers Dalmar and a couple of other British voices that sounded very familiar, but which I couldn't finally identify.

    BLOOD CASTLE: Gold from the Silver Age 2006

  • Quiney thereupon left, but soon after returned and told them he had orders from the lieutenancy to clear the hall.

    London and the Kingdom - Volume II

  • The order was not forthcoming; it was with the major, said Quiney, who soon afterwards formed up his men and, again addressing Cornish and the other aldermen, peremptorily required them to withdraw or he would expel them by force.

    London and the Kingdom - Volume II

  • Proceedings were subsequently taken against Quiney for keeping persons that were liverymen out of the

    London and the Kingdom - Volume II

  • Abraham Sturley to Richard Quiney on the following fourth of November it appears that Quiney was seeking an enlargement of the charter of

    The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

  • "My father's sister, my dear aunt Quiney, a gracious good woman, taking notice of my dejected spirit, she waylaid me in my coming home from the morning exercise then in our parish."

    Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 Various

  • Henry Adams knew his London and his Paris, his Boston and his Quiney - we must not forget Quincy - well.

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

  • Quiney, to be visited and instructed in theology, the arts, and the sciences, by such teachers as that unparagoned spinster might, with his approval, select.

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Miss Quiney is drinking champagne, I see, though her neighbours have deserted it for red wine.

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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