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 Quinap’alus.Quince (Peter) 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Quinbus Flestrin.
 
The man-mountain. So the Lilliputians called Gulliver (chap. ii.). Gay has an ode to this giant.   1
       
“Bards of old of him told,
When they said Atlas’ head
Propped the skies.”
       
Gay: Lilliputian Ode.
 


 Quinap’alus.Quince (Peter) 

 
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