quin-
variant of quino- before a vowel.
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/ kwɪn /
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Per-roneau's Portrait of the Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man was stooping over the irna and muttering: "Okinchincha quin appani ilchi ilchi-a."
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey) Sayce
He can laugh pungently enough at the style of oratory prevailing in the courts— nilne pudet capiti non posse pericula cano pellere, quin tepidum hoc optes audire 'decenter'. 'fur es', ait Pedio.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
God must be proved by the senses like any other concrete thing; "nihil est in intellectu quin prius fuerit in sensu"; even if Aristotle had not affirmed the law, Thomas would have discovered it.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
He said this three times, moved the irna to a new place, and then began a new curse: "Purtulinga apina-a intaapa inkirilia quin appani intarpakala-a."
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey) Sayce
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