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Quiller-Couch

American  
[kwil-er-kooch] / ˈkwɪl ərˈkutʃ /

noun

  1. Sir Arthur Thomas Q, 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.


Quiller-Couch British  
/ ˌkwɪləˈkuːtʃ /

noun

  1. Sir Arthur ( Thomas ), known as Q . 1863–1944, British critic and novelist, who edited the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Said learned Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge since 1912: "I had no idea of its origin."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall.

From Time Magazine Archive

But that can only be if in filling his notebook with these little comedies and tragedies Mr. Quiller-Couch is preparing for more sustained efforts.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Where Mr. Quiller-Couch and Mr. Conan Doyle both fail as compared with the great master of romance is in the introduction of historical figures and episodes.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch gives an amusing account of the way in which Biographia Literaria came to be written.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert

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