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Was my policeman right when he called Quidnunc a herald angel?
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Her name is Quidnunc, which is a Latin word for "busybody".
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Her name is Quidnunc, which is a Latin word for "busybody".
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Each day Charlie Quidnunc picks a few of his favorite blog posts and reads them out loud, recording them to MP3 and posting the files on his site.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » 125th Carnival of the Vanities 2005
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Under this class comes the Quidnunc here pourtrayed; it is said to be intended for a Mr. Tibson, laceman, in the Strand, who paid more attention to the affairs of Europe, than to those of his own shop.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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Quidnunc must have doffed his immateriality and suffered real incarnation.
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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I went my way home and to bed, but was not done with Quidnunc.
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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I have two cases to add to that of Quidnunc, but before giving them, let me say of his affair that since the suggestion there seems to have come from him to the woman, the incarnation, if such there were, must have been voluntary.
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Was Quidnunc, that swift, remorseless, smiling messenger, that god of the winged feet?
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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The ruthlessness, for instance, of Quidnunc as he pursued and obtained his desire, had Quidnunc been a human creature, would have been revolting; the shamelessness of the fairy wife of
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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