Quiller-Couch

American  

[kwil-er-kooch] / ˈkwɪl ərˈkutʃ /

noun

1. Sir Arthur Thomas Q, 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.

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Quiller-Couch British  

/ ˌkwɪləˈkuːtʃ /

noun

1. Sir Arthur ( Thomas ), known as Q . 1863–1944, British critic and novelist, who edited the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)

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Example Sentences

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said learned Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge since 1912: "I had no idea of its origin."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch put his "The Starlight Night" in the "Oxford Book of Victorian Verse," and he is represented in Orby Shipley's "Carmina Mariana" and H. C. Beeching's "Lyra Sacra."

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce

This is due in some measure to its being the home of Sir A. Quiller-Couch, who has made it familiar to thousands in his stories of Troy Town and The Delectable Duchy.

From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)

Mr. Quiller-Couch has never sinned in this way, but his first style was somewhat turgid, even melodramatic, and, compared with Mr. Kipling's, lacked distinction.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir