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Joe Quintant, charged with failing to display 1953 plates on his car, was excused by the judge when he explained that the last time he tried to put on the new plates, an old back injury flared up and sent him to the hospital for three weeks.

An instrument used instead of a sextant, quintant, or quadrant; but the quintant embraces as much—viz.

The flat bar which carries the nonius scale and index-glass of a quadrant, octant, quintant, or sextant.

Having successfully performed this duty, and obtained the observations he required, Mr. Yule thought it high time to return on board; but the surf had in the meantime increased so heavily, that in the attempt the second gig was swamped, and every thing in her, including the arms, lost, except the quintant and chronometer, the boat herself being with difficulty saved by being towed outside the surf by the other gig.

My quintant was first wrested from my coxswain, who in a tone of grief made me known the circumstance.