quain

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"Kelver, to make your ac-quain-tance," recited Mrs. Sellars in the tone of one repeating a lesson.

Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893
Never was the _esse quain videri_ in any point more strongly discriminated than in this very point of gallantry to the female sex, as between England and France.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822
O quain. eooteoita - res eft Homo » nifi fupra htunant le erexerit!

Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis .. 1788
'jtoiovvrd' quae quum natura sua niliil aliud significare pos - sint, quain: licet pessime se gerai, iamen excipe: cogitaiine ullo modo poteritob maleficia sua aequum esseMegapenthem non trajici?

Opera, graece et latine, ad editionem Tiberii Hemsterhusii et Joannis Frederici Reitzii accurate expressa, cum varietate lectionis et annotationum. Studiis Societatis Bipontinae 1789
B) Augujlorum nominibus non alii niimi a Sicyoniis cufi fuperfunt poft Domitianum » praeter quain Seueri et domus eius Auguflae*

Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790