quarto
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Or the notion that McCartney might very well have gleaned the phrase "let it be" from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" — but mercifully, not from the bad quarto, it turns out.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2021
ESCADA, Brasil — Não se avistava viva alma na rua estreita e empoeirada, a não ser um gato que se esgueirava sob uma lua quarto minguante.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017
Most editors of “Hamlet,” for instance, silently translate “porpentine” to “porcupine” without incurring outrage, though whether the porcupine is “fretful” or “fearful” depends on whether you follow the folio or the second quarto.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2015
And in Henry VI, Part Two, the Folio version has the King enter "on the Tarras", a somewhat redundant elaboration on the King's entrance in the quarto.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013
Major-General Forlong, of the British army, has also fully presented this subject in his recent quarto in two volumes, entitled Rivers of Life; or, Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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