651 examples of quids in sentences

When, moreover, this LUCRETIA BORGIA in pantaloons remembers that his scheme might prove more fatal to his friends than his enemies, perhaps he will take rather a larger quid than usual, and grow benevolent under its bland influences.

"I suppose folks would pay quids in peace time to see this!" "Why, it's like a blooming Cook's tour!" Being the first of the British who had been seen in these parts, we were objects of great interest to the Italians, who used to collect in crowds to watch our guns firing.

Quid dicam amplius?

"You leave it to me, and when you come home from a happy outing I 'ope to be able to cross your little hand with three 'undred golden quids.

"'I know just wot you want,' ses 'Arry, 'and if you'd got the 'art of a man in you, you'd make it two quids.'

"You leave it to me, and when you come home from a happy outing I 'ope to be able to cross your little hand with three 'undred golden quids.

"'I know just wot you want,' ses 'Arry, 'and if you'd got the 'art of a man in you, you'd make it two quids.'

But one realized daily, as one saw them chewing their quids, devouring rudely the courses served by Lovaina, or talking childishly of their future, that heroes are the creatures of opportunity.

One of the quids in it is for you, for your trouble.

2. Infinitum secundum quid, sive in certo genere.]

He would give me a quizzical look, shift his quid, and begin: "Spent a sight o' money on hens, hain't ye? Wall, by next year I guess you'll find out whether ye want to quit foolin' with hens or not.

Qui aut Tempus quid postulet non videt, aut plura loquitur, aut se ostentat, aut eorum quibuscum est rationem non habet, is ineptus esse dicitur.

Ambigitur quid enim?

'Quid non mortalia Pectora cogis Auri sacra fames' Virg.

'Quid Dulcius hominum generi a Natura datum est quam sui cuique liberi?' Tull.

Cui Nemesis, quid, ait, tibi sint mea damna dolori?

If Bushido rejects a doctrine of quid pro quo rewards, the shrewder tradesman will readily accept it.

They waited long, and when the iron horse came roaring out of the distance, women fell back and men rolled their quids and looked eagerly up the track.

Then Peter Russet swallered something 'e was going to say and asked old Isaac very perlite to make it a quid for 'im because he was going down to Colchester to see 'is mother, and 'e didn't want to go empty-'anded.

The other jurors, who could not read at all, or had an insuperable aversion to that laborious occupation, were rolling their quids in silence, and looking wise.

Marcus explained that he had made every effort to discover the authorship of the letters, without success; whereupon the coroner shut his eyes knowingly, rolled his quid from right to left, and said that he was "investigatin' 'em" himself.

The jury were idling over the newspapers, or lazily turning their quids.

All the former philosophers in the world, from the age of Socrates to ours, would have ignorantly put the question, Quid est imperium?

Father was worn out, yet he sat in the chimney-side, cutting off great quids and chewing and thinking and sighing.

The lower incisors were wanting, and the upper ones had coalesced and grown downwards and outwards, forming an irregular dark protruding mass which I at first took to be a quid of betel.

651 examples of  quids  in sentences