Meanings of quisquam in English

Jane blew air through her lips like a horse.

Here a pause ensued, during which Miss Jane blew into every separate finger of her gloves and folded them up with the neatest exactitude.

Any old Joe Six-pack would want to spend a rainy afternoon at a movie matinee eating popcorn, right?

From the TV show Larry King Live the dictionary editors cull the following: "I'd say that the average Russian lives very much like Joe Six-pack."

Joe Six-pack is complimentary compared to most of the entries, referring to "the ordinary beerdrinking working man".

If ' Joe six-pack' is proud to be compared with Homer I am not willing to accept to be compared to Apu.

The writer claims that some might see the rash of Joes as an effort to appeal to mainstream tastes: Joe Six-Pack, an average Joe.

The mere fact that the Venusian looks like any Joe Doakes walking down the street is a picayunish point.

"You sit there and talk about it like it was something that was going to happen to Joe Doakes and Oscar Zilch."

Everybody is as interested in seeing where Joe Shmoe comes from as they are in seeing him onstage.

Three days later Mr. X brought my Introduction to me, neatly type-copied.

That was why he contained his anger at Mr. X's late show.

It was hinted that Mr. X-was rather too fond of faro.

Mr. X was stepping backwards with the mindless tramp of a zombie.

I was talking to Mr. X--last night, the author of --.

Of course, it was Uno who passed it to me, but whose order could it have been?

Now it was Numero Dos who was smiling and Numero Uno who focused his attention out the window.

No ordinary Joe Soap would get by in this day and age without studying.

Of course, Joe Soap here stood downwind and didn't have the sense to move until my eyes were streaming.

It may be that John Citizen has been mesmerised by allegations, denials and inquiries which have run into the sand.

Juice Corp: business behind brands including Elizabeth Emanuel and Joe Bloggs went under in January.

How many people have an opinion on the performance of Joe Bloggs working in a bank?

The default version is a birthday template with a headline saying Joe Bloggs is 21 today!

There would be public shock if an unproven allegation against Joe Bloggs, childcare worker, became the lead story on the news.

Christchurch's Peter Johnstone agreed there was too much hype around the America's Cup, a sport he believed your average Joe Bloggs wouldn't relate to.

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The English Tommy Atkins and the French poilu are delightful together.

Tommy Atkins blasphemously dug corpses of donkeys and dogs from the Citadel moat.

He can't bully 'em any longer with his Tommy Atkins coat.

What the devil made you turn-turn ' Tommy Atkins' on the banjo?

Conversely, if I put a story about Fred Bloggs up on felixsalmon.com, which is almost never updated, it could take days to appear on Google.

The man on the Clapham omnibus had better things to do with his time.

To make up for it, this Orlando features -in a different alternate world -in my story ' The Man on the Clapham Omnibus'.

More from the news conference about Phillip John Smith fleeing the country.

That was the last that was seen of John Smith in Virginia.

But no;-thatwould be yielding a point to the said John Smith.

John Smith paid the Brevoorts nine hundred and fifty pounds for it.

The convicted murderer Phillip John Smith will be in court this morning.

Bringing in Joe Public could add to political pressure for tougher regulation.

So Joe Public does not object to this wise course of action.

Joe Public would never guess what was happening behind the scenes.

So once again Joe Public is being penalised for the inefficiency of Irish Water.

It's a simple chorus inviting Joe Public to sing along.

I'll wake up and see Uncle Joe blowing on a vinegar jug.

You got to put something down on your form, put Joe Blow.

He even has Joe Blow's memories and speech patterns, you see.

The first time Joe blew it be blew down ten acres of pine.

He wasn't Joe Blow from Kokomo, just some transient blowing through.