fits them for His rest.
And that He halved our little flock
Was merciful, I see;
For Benjamin has two in Heaven,
And two are left with me."

Bayard Taylor, _The Quaker Widow_.

=Quale= (_Mr._), a philanthropist, noted for his bald, shining forehead.
Mrs. Jellyby hopes her daughter, Caddy, will become Quale's
wife.--Charles Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1853).

=Quarl= (_Philip_), a sort of Robinson Crusoe, who had a chimpanzee for
his "man Friday." The story consists of the adventures and sufferings of
an English hermit named Philip Quarl (1727).

=Quasimo'do=, a foundling, hideously deformed, but of enormous muscular
strength, adopted by Archdeacon Frollo. He is brought up in the
cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. One day, he sees Esmeralda, who had
been dancing in the cathedral close, set upon by a mob as a witch, and
he conceals her for a time in the church. When, at length, the beautiful
gypsy girl is gibbeted, Quasimodo disappears mysteriously, but a
skeleton corresponding to the deformed figure is found after a time in a
hole under the gibbet.--Victor Hugo, _Notre Dame de Paris_ (1831).

=Quatre Filz Aymon= (_Les_), the four sons of the duke of Dordona
(_Dordogne_). Their names are Rinaldo, Guicciardo, Alardo, and
Ricciardetto (_i.e._ Renaud, Guiscard, Alard, and Richard), and their
adventures form the subject of an old French romance by Huon de
Villeneuve (twelfth century).

=Quaver=, a singing-master, who says "if it were not for singing-masters,
men and women might as well have been born dumb." He courts Lucy by
promising to give her singing lessons.--Fielding, _The Virgin Unmasked_.

=Queechy.= Farmstead to which the Rossiters retired after the ruin of
their fortunes in New York. Old-fashioned house and not productive
land.--Susan Warner, _Queechy_ (1852).

=Queen= (_The Starred Ethiop_), Cassiop[=e]ia, wife of Cepheus (2 _syl._),
king of Ethiopia. She boasted that she was fairer than the sea-nymphs,
and the offended nereids complained of the insult to Neptune, who sent a
sea-monster to ravage Ethiopia. At death, Cassiopeia was made a
constellation of thirteen stars.

... that starred Ethiop queen that strove
To set her beauty's praise above
The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.

Milton, _Il Penseroso_, 19 (1638).

_Queen_ (_The White_), Mary queen of Scots, _La Reine Blanche_; so
called by the French, because she dressed in white as mourning