Quitch

Just so! — to throw the quitch grass down to wither on the surface, and to turn the soil up, so that the crude earth may have its turn of baking. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Isch. And if a gang of men set to, to break and make this fallow with the mattock, it is transparent that their business is to separate the quitch grass from the soil and keep them parted? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The buoyant sound of the brass was seen as quitch, an artifact from the distant past. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He would avoid surprising any stragglers at the next village, and would get into touch with the head men, explaining that he was the long-lost son of Kla-quitch, who had escaped after all these years from the Mission, and had come back, learned in all the knowledge of the white men and armed further with this most wonderful appliance of magic, to take his place as hereditary medicine-man of his tribe. ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

What was Kla-quitch, with his painted sticks and bones, compared with him, if only he were the possessor of this marvel! ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

He could hear the people calling to one another from their spots of refuge, and ever the burden of the shout was either "Kla-quitch!" or "Yellow!" ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

Kla-quitch (who, it was naturally supposed, had appeared and announced his return from the spirit world); but it was far from being what his son and intending successor had hoped. ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

All the things his father, old Kla-quitch, the medicine-man, used to do were nothing to this. ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

He had decided to dispense with the "How d 'ye do?" in order to play his best card at once: so as he stepped into the light of the fire he merely uttered in a loud tone the word "Kla-quitch," to catch their attention. ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

He could not think of a better plan of operations than the one he had tried at Ballena, badly as it had worked there: namely, to maneuver so as to make his first appearance when a number of the chief men were together, and then get the name of Kla-quitch to their ears as quickly as possible. ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch [6] ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

Well, he would go on: probably the well-remembered name of Kla-quitch would make it all right. ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)

The lesser ones he could sweep away at one stroke, but that quitch grass was more difficult to conquer. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The quitch grass was thicker now, and the struggle harder. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The roots of quitch-grass are as strong as steel and run rapidly in all directions underneath the surface, sending up tender shoots that break too easily when you touch them. ❋ Unknown (1894)

The second consists largely of quitch-grass, the very worst of all, and purslain or pusley, which Charles Dudley Warner has immortalized in his charming book, "My Summer in a Garden." ❋ Unknown (1894)

The root, which has nothing to do with pur, is found by Curtius in the Slavonic pyro = rye, the Bohemian pyr = quitch grass, the Lettish purji = wheat, and the Lithuanian pyragas = wheaten bread. ❋ Unknown (1895)