651 examples of quids in sentences

"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.

"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.'

thenyou know I always carry a quid.

"Ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat" was the formula according to which they surrendered their liberty for the sake of their liberty.

Though your commercial meaning's hid From me, a layman, to my heart You bring a soothing nescio quid; Amid the flux of strikes and plots Two things at present stand like stone: In mines the goodness of their spots, In oils their healthy undertone.

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.

Quid pro quo, 304.

Pilate's question, QUID EST VERITAS?

I'll give you a couple of quid for it.

"I don't know another man in the world I could trust with twenty-five quid especially myself.

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

"We'll 'ave a quid out o' the box," he ses.

Besides, I want to give you the quid I promised you.

I'm not going to lose five-and-twenty quid through your carelessness.

"The watchman has lost twenty-five quid belonging to one o' my men.

Yet did this haughty Pope (according to Dr. Cave) allow his mother to be maintained by the alms of the church of Canterbury. P.T.W. Quid pro quo.

"Nescire quid acciderit antequam natus es, est semper esse puerum."Ib.

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.

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

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

651 examples of  quids  in sentences