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Quitch   Listen
noun
Quitch  n.  
1.
(Bot.) Same as Quitch grass.
2.
Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. "To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him."






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"Quitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... affinity between our word tumble, and the Latin tumulus, that is older than most others. I believe that words, or even the mere intonation of them, have an astonishing vitality and power of propagation by the root, like the gardener's pest, quitch-grass,[31] while the application or combination of them may be new. It is in these last that my countrymen seem to me full of humor, invention, quickness of wit, and that sense of subtle analogy which needs only refining to become fancy and imagination. Prosaic as American life ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... world will not believe a man repents, And this wise world of ours is mainly right For seldom does a man repent, and use Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch Of blood and nature wholly out of him, And make all clean, and plant himself afresh." ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar

... in an instant into a huge flower! Such a flower! Yellow like a sunflower, nay, like a thousand sunflowers, or the sun itself. Then he had done something again, and all at once it was as it had been at first. Talk about magic! All the things his father, old Kla-quitch, the medicine-man, used to do were nothing to this. He simply must have another look at it, and now was his chance, while Jose, who might tell the Padre, could not see. He slipped the cords from the bundle and took out ...
— The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions • J. Smeaton Chase



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