"Quad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Compassionis relate the Death of the Lady | affectu in feruore prode[u]t Frances Roberts without shedding | charitatis, pro qua eti[a] ad some Teares of Compassion, of | horam tui ipsius immemor esse, Deuotion, yea and of Compunction | sobria quad[a] ebrietate videris. too[m]? Shee deserues some Teares | S. Bern. in Epiph. Dom. Serm. 3.] from vs (Beloued) as well as from | the Poore, weeping now and shewing | [Note: Bountie to the Poore.] the Coats and garments which this | Dorcas made ...
— The Praise of a Godly Woman • Hannibal Gamon
... some five-and-thirty years since we met, and I believe as near forty years as may be since I was promoted from my garret, No. 3 Peckwater, into your ci-devant rooms in the old Quad, on which occasion I bought your things. Of all your household furniture I possess but one article, which I removed with myself to my first house and castle in Essex, as a very befitting parsonage sideboard, viz., a mahogany table, with two side ...
— A Walk from London to Fulham • Thomas Crofton Croker
... to and was examining minutely a two-by-three-foot painting, in a heavy gold frame, of a gorgeously auburn-haired nude. "Reproduction, hell! This is a duplicate! Lawrence's 'Innocent' is worth twenty million wogs and it's sealed behind quad armor-glass in Prime Art—but I'll bet wogs to wiggles the Prime Curator himself, with all his apparatus, couldn't tell ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... binary digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than a {nybble}. Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. General discussion of such terms ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... beautiful arcades, the walls and ceilings of which are everywhere covered with the stemmata, or shields, of former students, many of them brilliantly painted. Standing in the arcade on the side of the "quad" opposite the entrance, if one looks on the ceiling immediately above the capital of the second column to the left there is seen the stemma which appears as tailpiece to this chapter, put up by a young Englishman, William Harvey, who had been a student at Padua for four years. ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler
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