Quiller-Couch

American  

[kwil-er-kooch] / ˈkwɪl ərˈkutʃ /

noun

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

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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)

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Example Sentences

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

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

This is due in some measure to its being the home of Sir A. Quiller-Couch, who has made it familiar to thousands in his stories of Troy Town and The Delectable Duchy.

From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)

Quiller-Couch, must have read Oriental books, or obtained his fancy from some Eastern source.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio

Quiller-Couch sees life without a touch of morbid somberness and he commands a vivacious, highly-trained style.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post