What is "quilty"

Usage examples of "quilty".

It would be so much more reasonable to let me contact Ivor Quilty first thing tomorrow morning if it still hurts.

I remember thinking that this idea of children-colors had been lifted by authors Clare Quilty and Vivian Darkbloom from a passage in James Joyce, and that two of the colors were quite exasperatingly lovelyOrange who kept fidgeting all the time, and Emerald who, when her eyes got used to the pitch-black pit where we all heavily sat, suddenly smiled at her mother or her protector.

Wishing to be sure Quilty would be at home, I attempted to ring him up but learned that his private telephone had recently been disconnected.

I wondered idly if some surgeon of genius might not alter his own career, and perhaps the whole destiny of mankind, by reviving quilted Quilty, Clare Obscure.

Constant picking of the scraps in their garden patches had made the Quilty men exceedingly scrappy, and constant stitching upon the patch-work quilts had made the Quilty ladies extremely cross and crotchety.

When a Quilty goes to pieces, his relatives or friends sweep up the scraps and put them away in' a tidy scrap-bag and in ten years or so he comes out of the bag as good as ever.

But never before in the history of Patch had it gone so far nor so fast, so that soon the fat Quilty ministers, panting along after it, were completely out of breath and temper.

By the time they reached the Quilty Kingdom, the three travel-lers were so shaken up and down they tumbled off the path in a perfect heap of exhaustion.

The gaudy Quilty Kingdom, with its gay cotton patches, the Quilties themselves, in their oddly patched clothes, seemed as beautiful to Scraps as she seemed to them.

When they reached the patched palace, two Quilty boys were waiting on the steps, one with the coronet and the other with the crown jewels and, amid the further cheers of the populace, Scraps was crowned Queen of the Kingdom and led triumphantly into her castle.

At the mention of eggs, Ruggedo turned quite pale under his wrinkled gray skin and, as Peter looked at the two in perplexity, Scrapper returned bringing an old Quilty grandame with him.

But the Gnome King, pressing close to the old Quilty seamstress, waved him jealously away, and Scrapper, jerking him roughly by the arm, whirled him off into a corner.

As they started down the road, a crowd of Quilty men, on their way to the palace with a fresh load of patches, stared at them in astonishment.

Over the corselet, half-concealing it, is a wire structure covered with a shimmering pink quilty material.