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Quain may refer to:
- Buell Quain (1912–1939), American Ethnologist, graduated from Columbia University, worked with native peoples in Fiji and Brazil
- John Richard Quain (1816–1876), judge
- Jones Quain (1796–1865), anatomist, born at Mallow, Ireland
- Richard Quain (1816–1898), Irish physician, was born at Mallow-on-the-Blackwater, Co. Cork
- Richard Quain (1800–1887) (1800–87) was an English anatomist and surgeon, born at Fermoy, Ireland, a brother of Jones Quain
Usage examples of "quain".
Below, in the yard, Aldo Campione, Fiddler Quain, Harold Allen, and Rowdy Dick Doolan were erecting a wooden structure that Francis was already able to recognize as bleachers.
To this end, he encouraged ancipitals to come in to Kace from Randonan, Quain, and Oldorando.
Captain Quain spoke with such emotion, such rhythm in his voice, it was impossible not to be carried away by his words.
Fyler and, surprisingly, Captain Quain looked after him day and night.
Jack felt as if the night itself was spinning, and he and Quain were the only stationary points.
He woke up the next morning to find himself covered with warm blankets and Quain sitting in the comer, watching.
Ask Fyler to bring up some decent stuff from the hold and tell him Captain Quain says no hoarding.
Captain Quain approached him, and the two men stood silent, looking into the mists for some time.
Once he was steady, he looked up to the deck of The Fishy Few, where all the crewmen including Captain Quain were lined up.
He made his way around a rocky precipice and finally caught sight of the beach Quain had mentioned.
He made out the form of Captain Quain, who raised his hand in greeting.
Captain Quain had grasped his hand warmly and offered him help if he ever needed it.
Colin, I imagine this Cyril Quain sitting in his room, smoking his pipe as he is represented to do in his photographs, sitting there with around him the A.
As he heaved it upward into the wagon, the odor of fire still in his nostrils, he confronted Fiddler Quain, sitting on an upended metal chamber pot that had been shot full of holes by some backyard marksman.
Louisa was now the wife of Sir Humphrey Quain, with no breath of scandal attaching to her name, but there had been a day, in her mad teens, when the town hummed with gossip about her.