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Quade

Quad \Quad\, Quade \Quade\, a. [Akin to AS. cw[=ae]d, cwead, dung, evil, G. kot, dung, OHG. qu[=a]t.] Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.]

Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith.
--Chaucer.

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quade

a. (alternative form of quede English)

Usage examples of "quade".

Anthony Quade, ace director and trouble-shooter extraordinary for Nine Planets.

But a dozen eager voices informed her that Tony Quade was the man who had brought back the monsters from Mercury, and that he was one of the biggest figures in the film industry.

He stuck the magazine in his pocket and stood up as the door opened and Von Zorn and Quade came in.

Arriving at the skyscraper that masked the mighty machines beneath, Quade and McColm piled out.

There was a deafening thunderclap, and an invisible hand seemed to lift Quade and McColm and smash them back.

With numbed surprise Quade noticed that the Promethean no longer clung to the naked power lines.

The Prometheans were, so to speak, in their cups, and large enough and active enough to cause Quade trouble.

In some obscure fashion they realized that Quade was an enemy, trying to prevent them from reaching the intoxicating electric current.

With this ferocious intention he found a crowbar for himself and one for Quade, and turned back to the Prometheans.

She had thought of televising Von Zorn or Quade and warning them, but hesitated.

But my knowledge is practical, Quade, and I got it from knocking around the planets for years.

Along the sloping corridor men stood at intervals, a bucket brigade that passed along empty pails as Quade sent up Promethean-filled ones.

Gerry said, and with a dexterous movement managed to propel Quade back, where he collided with a fat Promethean and was hurled to the ground by an electric shock.

Nobody was expecting her, and Tony Quade with his boss, Von Zorn, lolled unsuspectingly in a Turkish bath on Lunar Boulevard.

Strike were waiting as Von Zorn and Quade, freshly groomed and still smelling faintly of sour-grass, entered.