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Of history proper he of course knew nothing, but these splinters of quasi-historic evidence had run deep into his flesh.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George

The lady of Susa, quasi-historic, or wholly imaginative, or mixed?

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham

We have no knowledge of the last time when Sanskrit was spoken: it has always been, in historic or quasi-historic ages, what it is now—literary language preserved by the high castes.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth