Do we say cues or queues

cues 38 occurrences

Won't they be bang up with their cues hitcht to a canal bote snakin' it along at the rate of a mile inside of 2 hours.

" Then when they was restin' from their labors, by tyin' 2 of 'em together by their cues, stand one opposite the other and hang close between 'em to dry, on washin' day.

At the nearer table, a weazened little man bent eagerly over a pictorial paper; at the farther, chalking their cues, stood two players, one a sturdy Englishman with a gray moustache, the other a lithe, graceful person, whose blue coat, smart as an officer's, and swarthy but handsome face made him at a glance the most striking figure in the room.

Four strangers grounded their cues long enough to shake his hand.

"He sticks close to his cues, you see, and won't move till he gets one.

I know they will not interrupt me, for fear of marring of all; but look to your cues, my masters, for I intend to play the knave in cue, and put you besides all your parts, if you take not the better heed.

so, 'tis well, You know your cues, and have instructions How to bear yourselves: all, all is fit, Play but your part, your states from hence are firm.

le litre"encircling a dead rabbit painted over two billiard cues tied in a cross by a ribbon,all this recalled with cruel irony the popular entertainment of former days.

He domineers over freshmen when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of cues and cees, and some broken Latin which he has learned at his bin.

As many notes, 'memoranda', cues of connection and transition as the preacher may find expedient or serviceable to him; well and good.

It seems safe to conclude from the results of these control series that Sobke has no free idea of the relation of secondness from the right and is chiefly dependent upon memory of the particular settings for cues which lead to correct choice.

Nicolas of Cusa.% Nicolas was born in 1401, at Cues (Cusa) on the Moselle near Treves.

The days are over, when every petty German prince must create in his domains a servile imitation of the stiff parks of Versailles,the days of powdered wigs and long cues,when French ballet-dancers gave the tone, and French actors strutted on every stage,when Boileau was the great canon of criticism, and Racine and Molière perpetuated in tragedy and comedy a pseudo-classicism.

It was a bit hard when you had been thinking you had played your part fairly creditably to discover you had been fumbling your cues wretchedly all along.

It is put either for the plural of Q., a Question, like D. D.'s, (read Dee-Dees,) for Doctors of Divinity; or else, more erroneously, for cues, the plural of cue, a turn which the next speaker catches.

[For the continuation of this interesting series of reminiscences see to-morrow's Evening Cues.

If Hartley, the villain, and Jack Pendleton, the manly young navy officer, who represents virtue, and dashes in at the right moment to save Gwendoline, could sit close and stand the discomfort of it, they might squeeze in there and await their cues.

© on new music arrangement for Good night ladies with playing cues; 24Aug38; AA283763. Elbern H. (Eddie) Alkire (A); 23Nov65; R374248.

RYAN, MILDRED GRAVES. Cues for you.

v. 3 (Cues technical high school series)

RYAN, MILDRED GRAVES. Cues for you.

THE FABLE OF THE MICHIGAN COUNTERFEIT WHO WASN'T ONE THING OR THE OTHER Two Travelers sat in a Sleeping Car that was fixed up with Plush and Curly-Cues until it resembled a Chambermaid's Dream of Paradise.

A billiard room, with well-worn cues, balls, and tablequite a novel adjunct to a parsonagemay, in a measure, account for his vigorous sermons.

" "No," piped the party of reform, "All great results are ta'en by storm; Fate holds her best gifts till we show We've strength to make her let them go: No more reject the Age's chrism, Your cues are an anachronism; No more the Future's promise mock, But lay your tails upon the block, Thankful that we the means have voted To have you thus to frogs promoted.

Their general direction was to throw up their arms and look fierce at certain music cues.

queues 30 occurrences

* Q. Is it likely that a set of Chinese gardeners would be able to mind, at the same time, both their Peas and their Queues? *

Of all the queues which any man or any nation ever gave to another, the Chinese have supplied us with the most queue-rious.

Thence he conveyed it across the Plains, and now our mothers are going back to two queues such as those they wore when the roses which bloomed upon their cheeks were not produced by rouge, and to comprehend the lessons in the school-books which they carried was the severest trial which they knew, except, indeed, the restrained desire to get married.

Next, he who serves up for us our religion every once a week in the form of sanctimonious speeches on the subject of political economy, will let his congregation go behind Plymouth Pulpit for the purpose of getting their queues for the next Sunday love-feast by observing his.

Rudolph's chair jostled through hundreds and hundreds of Chinese, all alike in the darkness, who shuffled along before with switching queues, or flattened against the wall to stare, almost nose to nose, at the passing foreigner.

" Behind him, a squad of some dozen barefoot wretches, in coolie clothes, with queues un-plaited, crawled on all fours through the first arch.

Others sat in the sunshine at the openings of the tents tying up their queues, pipe-claying their belts, and polishing their arms, hardly bestowing a glance upon us as we passed, for patrols of cavalry were coming and going in every direction.

In basements they could see through half-open doors at the bottom of ladderlike steps, earnest-faced men, with long, well-tended queues of hair, busily tonsuring sleepy clients.

He had always understood that when coupons were issued queues were superfluous.

It is well to administer some sort of corrective to the information diffused by the neutral newsmonger: Who cheers us when we're in the blues, With reassuring German news, Of starving Berliners in queues?

] To the ordinary queues we now have to add processions of conscientious disgorgers patriotically evading prosecution.

" "If there be two queues outside two different butchers' shops, and the length and the breadth of one queue be equal to the length and breadth of the other queue, each to each, but the supplies in one shop are greater than the supplies in the other shop, then the persons in the one queue will get more meat than those in the other queue, which is absurd, and Rhondda ought to see about it.

The queues have disappeared, supplies are adequate, and there are no complaints of class-favouritism.

"Members of my own household," he said, "have stood in these queues, and I know something of their hardships."

Mr. TILLETT seized the opportunity to make his maiden speech, and reminded the House that when they talked of queues at home they should not forget those other queues in the trenches.

Mr. TILLETT seized the opportunity to make his maiden speech, and reminded the House that when they talked of queues at home they should not forget those other queues in the trenches.

So it was with them in the first weeks of the war, and it was a pitiable thing to watch the long queues of women waiting patiently outside the mairies, hour after hour and sometimes day after day, to get that one franc twenty-five which would buy their children's bread.

"R.T. I have often noticed this in some of our Berlin butter queues.

le chemin est réduit uniquement à ce qu'il faut pour le passage des chevaux tout le reste, à gauche, dans une largeur et une longueur d'une lieue environ, ne présente qu'un amas immense de cailloux pareils à ceux de rivière, et dont la plupart sont gros comme des queues de vin.

Les moutons ont de grosses et larges queues.

ait de longues oreilles pendantes et de longues queues feuillées (touffues), que cependant elle porte bien.

No male inhabitant could ever squeeze out a leisure half-hour to visit a barber, hence their long queues.

"But I don't want to leave home," I heard a little ex-fusemaker say as we stood in queues at the chicken-wire hatch in the big bare room turned over by the ministry of munitions for the replacement of women who had worked on army supplies.

QUEUES, BAKERS', "long strings of purchasers arranged in tail at the bakers' shop doors in Paris during the Revolution period, so that first come be first served, were the shops once open," and that came to be a Parisian institution.

A few butchers went still further and announced at what hours certain numbers could be served, thus doing away with the long queues.

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