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Examples
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The arch-quack looked after his son's retreating figure, and his big, animal-like eyes were very tender.
The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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The whole system of nostrums from that arch-quack, the old serpent, down to the far-famed Stoughton of our own day, does not present so powerful a remedy, amid all its _antis_, as cheerful reading to a heavy spirit.
The History of Dartmouth College Baxter Perry Smith 1856
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He was the arch-quack of his age, the last of the great pretenders to the philosopher's stone and the water of life, and during his brief season of prosperity, one of the most conspicuous characters of Europe.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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“Wot you not he hath offered a reward for the arch-quack and poison-vender, Demetrius, who sold certain precious spices to his lordship’s cook?
Kenilworth 2004
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"Wot you not he hath offered a reward for the arch-quack and poison-vender, Demetrius, who sold certain precious spices to his lordship's cook?
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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