Quoy

I stopped at every altar and shrine, the tiny stand of pale oats at Shirva, the nettle bed at Pund, the vegetable patch at Quoy, a miniature plantation of stunted sycamores and dissolute pines, the squelching bog beyond the post office.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Subsequently, the naturalists Quoy and Gaimard collected zoological specimens in Captain Freycinet's voyage to Shark Bay.

Shark Bay, Australia 2008

Quoy que cet animal ait la figure d'un chat par son regard, qui est épouvantable, j'ay creu & croy encore que c'est un Diable familier. '

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

Quoy and Gaimard were applicable, not to reefs in general as implied by them, but only to those of the fringing class; my surprise, however, ceased when I afterwards found that, by a strange chance, all the several islands visited by these eminent naturalists, could be shown by their own statements to have been elevated within a recent geological era.

Chapter XX 1909

Le Quoy had been driven from Martinique by the French Revolution, and his choice of Cooperstown as a retreat came about through a friendly office which he had performed, while governor of the island, in liberating one of the ships of John Murray & Sons of New York.

The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894

Quoy qu'il soit bon de s'epargner vn trop grand soing de pratiquer vne ciuilite affectee, il faut pourtant estre exact a en obseruer ce qui est necessaire & auantageux pour faire paroistre une belle education, & ce qui ne se peut obmettre sans choquer ceux auec qui l'on converse.

George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

Quoy and Gaimard noticed a statue moulded in white clay, under a sort of canopy close to a tomb.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

Jacquinot, and as scientific colloborateurs Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard, who had been on board the _Uranie_, and as surgeon Primevère Lesson.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

Quoy, Gaimard, and Gaudichaud, submitted the specimens which they had collected.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

After touching at Gibraltar, the _Astrolabe_ stopped at Teneriffe to take in fresh provisions before crossing the Atlantic, and D'Urville took advantage of this delay to ascend the peak, accompanied by Messrs. Quoy, Gaimard, and several officers, a bad road, very arduous for pedestrians, leading the first part of the way over fields of scoria, though as Laguna is approached the scenery improves.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866