"Quintin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the St. Quintin is arrived at Genoa: I see by the prints of to-day that it is got to leghorn: I am extremely glad, for I feared for it, for the poor boy, and for the things. Tell me how you like your secretary. I shall be quite happy, if I have placed one with ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... to the above occurrence Lieutenant John Wood Rouse was in command of his Majesty's schooner Pioneer. On the 11th of January 1817 he was cruising between Dungeness and Point St. Quintin, when his attention was drawn to a lugger whose name we may state by anticipation was the Wasp. She appeared to be making for the English coast on a N.W. bearing, and was distant about six miles. ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton |
