" There are several versions of this piece of weather-lore, an old Kentish one being "Oak, smoke; ash, quash;" and according to a version given in Notes and Queries (1st Series v. 71): "If the oak's before the ash, then you'll only get a splash, If the ash precedes the oak, then you may expect a soak.

She was a very pious woman, and her brother a very sober man to all appearance; but now he does all he can to null and quash the story.

I would even appeal, as a favor, to the class to quash this Coventry resolution, and perhaps I might be considered to have some right to ask the favor, since the whole trouble grew out of an affair between Mr. Jetson and myself.

I beg of you all, classmates, to quash the motion now before the class.

The rejection of the appeal by the Privy Council no more proves the guilt of the condemned than their innocence would have been proved by quashing the proceedings before the Martial Law Tribunal.

Honestly, I did my level best to quash the proceedings: I might as well have tried to bale out the Pacific with a pitchfork.

Posthumous judges, be their decision favorable to the appellant or not, form the proper court for quashing the verdict of contemporaries.

The senators, on the other hand, who had taken Numidian money, tried to quash discussion, and would have succeeded if the tribune, Caius Memmius, had not overawed them by his harangues.

Henceforth let every unsuccessful litigant have the right to pronounce the verdict of a jury sectional, and to quash all proceedings and retain the property in controversy by seceding from the court-room.

" After a long argument before Mr. Edlin and a number of other Middlesex magistrates, the Bench affirmed Mr. Vaughan's order, whereupon Mr. Bradlaugh promptly obtained from the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Mellor a writ of certiorari, removing their order to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice with a view to quashing it.

The Court decided in Mr. Bradlaugh's favor and granted a rule quashing Mr. Vaughan's order, and with this fell the order of the Middlesex magistrates.

The only hope he entertained of checking this exodus was by quashing the indictments for treason which had been found against the Mormon leaders, and by insuring them against contact with the troops.

To quash all protest a special press law was introduced for Transylvania.

Philip yielded to the temptation, and in 1190 published an ordinance to the following purport: "Desiring to avoid for our soul every sort of danger, we do entirely quash the commune established in the town of Laon as being contrary to the rights and liberties of the metropolitan church of St. Mary, in regard for justice and for the sake of a happy issue to the pilgrimage which we be bound to make to Jerusalem."

But this I put to you: Have I the right To quash the verdict which the court has passed?

On that day we moved to quash the indictment and for a new trial, partly on a technical ground and partly on the ground that the verdict, having acquitted us of wrong motive, was in our favour, not against us.

Quash-quame also said to Governor Edwards, Governor Clarke, and Mr. Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners appointed to treat with the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottowattamies of Illinois River, in the summer of 1816, for lands on the west side of Illinois River, "'You white men may put on paper what you please, but again I tell you, I never sold any lands higher up the Mississippi than the mouth of Rocky River.'

He always denied the authority of Quash-quame and others to sell any part of their lands, and told the Indians not to receive any presents or annuities from any Americanotherwise their lands would be claimed at some future day.

"What would we gain by quashing the indictment, Mr. Conger?" "Well, if the indictment were quashed on the ground of a defect in its substance, then the case falls.

"Well, sir, what do you think now of a writ ad sub.?" "Why, I think, Mr. Ferret," replied I, looking as serious as I could, "that yours is very sharp practice; that the purpose you have put it to is an abuse of the writ; that the arrest is consequently illegal; and that a judge would, upon motion, quash it with costs.

This was the essence of the document; and all the parts of it which were capable of corroborative proof having been substantiated, a free pardon issued from the crownthe technical mode of quashing an unjust criminal verdictand Mademoiselle de Tourville was restored to liberty.

Returning home our route was changed, and Quash the boatman took us all the way round by water to Hampton.

There were an unusual number of sick women in the room to-day; among them quite a young girl, daughter of Boatman Quash's, with a sick baby, who has a father, though she has no husband.

We landed on this forest in the sea by Quash's house, the only human residence on the island.

Besides, what better or more sensible mode than this could there be, according to his views, of quashing the whole esclandrequieting official inquiry as well as public indignation?