y horrifying acts, that one might doubt if he were indeed
human.--Ch. v.

_Mrs. Quilp_ (_Betsy_), wife of the dwarf, a loving, young, timid,
obedient, and pretty blue-eyed little woman, treated like a dog by her
diabolical husband, whom she really loved but more greatly feared.--C.
Dickens, _The Old Curiosity Shop_ (1840).

=Quinnailon= (_Father_). Benevolent priest in Xerxes, a Western town. He
succors the suffering of whatever creed and conditions, and shares his
little all with the needy. When appointed bishop, he goes to Rome to beg
for permission to decline the honor.

"I will fall at the feet of the Holy Father, and beseech him not to
make a bishop out of a poor, simple old man who cannot bear so
great a burden; but to let me come back and die among my dear
people!"--Octave Thanet, _Quilters in the Sun_ (1877).

=Quinap'alus=, the Mrs. Harris of "authorities in citations." If any one
quotes from an hypothetical author, he gives Quinapalus as his
authority.

What says Quinapalus: "Better a witty fool than a foolish
wit."--Shakespeare, _Twelfth Night_, act.[TN-114] i. sc. 5 (1614).

=Quinbus Flestrin= (_the "man-mountain"_). So the Lilliputians called
Gulliver (ch. ii.).--Swift, _Gulliver's Travels_ ("Voyage to Lilliput,"
1726).

=Quince= (_Peter_), a carpenter, who undertakes the management of the play
called "Pyramus and Thisb[^e]," in _Midsummer Night's Dream_. He speaks of
"laughable tragedy," "lamentable comedy," "tragical mirth," and so
on.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night's Dream_ (1592).

=Quino'nes= (_Suero de_), in the reign of Juan II. He, with nine other
cavaliers, held the bridge of Orbigo against all comers for thirty-six
days, and in that time they overthrew seventy-eight knights of Spain and
France.

=Quintano'na=, the duenna of Queen Guinever or Ginebra.--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_, II. ii. 6 (1615).

=Quintessence= (_Queen_), sovereign of Ent['e]l['e]chie, the country of
speculative science visited by Pantag'ruel and his companions in their
search for "the oracle of the Holy Bottle."--Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, v.
19 (1545).

=Quin'tiquinies'tra= (_Queen_), a much-dreaded, fighting giantess. It was
one of the romances of Don Quixote's library condemned by the priest and
barber of the village to be burnt.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. (1605).

=Quintus Fixlein= [_Fix.line_], the title and chief character of a romance
by Jean Paul Friedrich