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Like the quasi-classic novel written 36 years ago by British Author Richard Hughes, it is on the surface a conventional tale of piracy, kidnaping, and adventure on the high seas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Near to our local Palace of Justice is the County Court, which is severe in its simplicity, quasi-classic in style, and decidedly plain in design.

From A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Anderton, Thomas

Some limner ought to draw A quasi-classic fresco, O Lady of the Law!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 by Various

Abraham Swan, some of whose designs for wooden chimney pieces in the quasi-classic style are given, flourished about 1758.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick