Citations:quarrons

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English citations of quarrons, quarromes, and quarroms

Noun: "body"

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  • 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors‎, T. Bensley, published 1814, page 66:
    Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes in what lipken hast thou lipped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell.
    Good morrow to thy bodye, in what house hast thou lyne in all night, whether in a bed or in the strawe?
  • 1612, attributed to Thomas Dekker, “O Per Se O”, in A. B. Judges, editor, The Elizabethan Underworld - a Collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads‎, Routledge, published 1930, reprinted 2002, page 371:
    The abram cove is a lusty strong rogue, who walketh with a slade about his quarroms trining to his hams, bandolierwise, for all the world as cutpurses and thieves wear their sheets to the gallows, in which their trulls are to bury them.
  • 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew, or, The Merry Beggars‎, published 1652, act 2:
    Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
  • 1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896, page 33:
    White thy fambles, red thy gan, / And they quarrons dainty is; / Couch a hogshead with me then, / And in the darkmans clip and kiss.
  • 1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue‎, 2nd edition, published 1788, To Fib:
    Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse.
  • 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Turns Beggar”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood‎, page 207:
    Quoth he, "Thou dost surely jest when thou sayest that thou dost not understand such words. Answer me this: Hast thou ever fibbed a chouse quarrons in the Rome pad for the loure in his bung?"
  • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
    Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted. Call away let him: thy quarrons dainty is. Language no whit worse than his.
  • 1932, Wystan Hugh Auden, The Orators:
    Salmon draws Its lovely quarrons through the pool.
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