I'll take the dog out o' yer way, an' give you half a quid for him, if yer like.
Probably there is not one of them who would hesitate to divide his last tobacco-quid with his worst enemy.
The holiday outings I gave my men were a quidpro quo for some hours of overtime in the hay-making, and included a day's wages, all expenses, and a supply of food.
The Legal is upon specified conditions, either purely tradesmanlike from hand to hand or somewhat more gentlemanly as regards time but still by agreement a quid pro quo.
And turning away, old Rube spat out a quid of tobacco and his Mormonism together.
An Englishman and a Sandwich Islander cut a quid from the same plug of tobacco.
There sat the broad-shouldered man, moving not a muscle of his face, except when from time to time he slowly turned his quid from one cheek into the other, or fixed his sharp eyes upon the sails, or turned them out to sea.
Do what you please," he muttered, putting a quid of tobacco into his wide mouth.
On another occasion, having taken on a stranger at squash for a quid a game, he had discovered too late that the latter was an ex-public-school champion.
Young Threepwood was telling me only the other day that the old boy took thirty quid off him at picquet as clean as a whistle.
Two hundred quid he had netted over that, paid in Turkish gold.
The habit of accepting as final what is prescriptively right in the affairs of life has as its reflex in the affairs of knowledge the formula, Quid ab omnibus, quid ubique creditur credendum est.
