I'd have had 'em as quat as mice, the whole six, afore I'd been their mother a week.
He swears that you did give them advice to be quat and close, lest they were taken by the King's servants.
Roderigo being called a quat by the same mode of speech as a low fellow is now called a scab.
Roderigo is so called by Iago: "I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry.
The words are often associated, as ‘And quat for luue and quat for age,’ GE 3632.
More weþ{er} louyly is me my gyfte To do wyth mynquat so me lykeȝ?
Quat and has thou ossed to Alexander this ayndain (angry) wirdes.
Quat oget nu ðat for-bode o-wold = What does now that prohibition signify?
But lest you think I am uncivil To plague you with this draunting drivel, Abjuring a' intentions evil, I quat my pen, The Lord preserve us frae the devil!
I persuaded the Koordi and Quat Kare to become friends and at once to declare peace; thus, all hostilities having ceased, the responsibility for further disturbance would rest with him who should recommence a breach of the peace.
Djiaffer Pacha had paid much attention to the sons of Quat Kare at Khartoum, and the Khedive, in reply to my representations, had appointed him chief of the country in place of the pretender Jangy.
Presently Quat Kare fixed his eyes upon him with a steady and determined stare, but with his usual immovable features, and he thus silently regarded him during several minutes.
His superior was a great character, who, from the low position of a slave presented by the King of the Shillooks, Quat Kare, had risen from cook's mate to the most important position of the household.
Yesterday evening, Quat Kare and his two favourite wives came to take leave.
A Shillook, named Abdullah, closely connected with Quat Kare, had promised to accompany me, and to supply the necessary guides.
Quat Kare was a powerful king, who had ruled the country for more than fifty years.
Quat Kare, with his wives and daughters and general retinue, determined to pass the night in our station.
Quat Kare never eats or drinks in the presence of his people, but his food is taken to him either within a hut or to a lonely tree.
With regard to the false report ofQuat Kare's death, there could be no doubt that the firman for his rival Jangy had been obtained from the Khedive under false pretences.
At the same time, I assured Quat Kare and his people that the Khedive had only one object in forming a government: this was to protect the natives and to develop the resources of the country.
How long this tableau vivant would have continued it is impossible to say, therefore I proceeded to business by asking the governor if he knewQuat Kare by sight?
Since that time the adherents of Quat Kare had been subject to constant raids and pillage, and the old king was a fugitive, who, if caught by the Koordi, would assuredly have been quietly put OUT OF THE WAY.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
