Quiller-Couch
Americannoun
noun
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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
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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
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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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