“I'll tell you what you're going to do. Have you a clean shirt?” “Several.” “And a toothbrush?” “Two, both of the finestquality.” “Then pack them. You're coming to Brinkley tomorrow.”
Tuc[ca].[…] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? /Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, inRome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. /Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendableQualities, I'le cheriſh him:[…]
“That's life,” she said, and buzzed off to keep her vigil, leaving me kicking myself because I'd forgotten to say anything about thequality of mercy not being strained. It isn't, as I dare say you know, and a mention of this might just have done the trick.
Something about his bearing was uncommitted, as though he were checking not for some badquality he knew Feldman had, but for some goodquality he was afraid he might have.
1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, inA Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page i:
The firſt Solemn Embaſſy that the French King ſent to the late King of SIAM, was in the Year 1685, by Monſieur de Chaumont, who went inQuality of Ambaſſador Extraordinary[…]
1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach,Contemporary British Politics, page164:
It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between thequalities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.
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Aquality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
1930, Stella Blum,Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published1986, page 4:
A model for discriminating women! A "quality" coat in every sense!
a.2003, John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, quoting Harriet (a Cambridge University student),Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education[3], Routledge, published2003,→ISBN, page114:
I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a veryquality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .
2004, Vance M. Thompson, MD, edited by J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith,LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls[4], SLACK Incorporated,→ISBN, page187:
For one I wanted to have what I considered a veryquality tracking device.
2008, Fay Vincent, quoting Carl Erskine,We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved[5], Simon and Schuster,→ISBN, page144:
