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    1. "The first quarter inch, I put the rest of it away


    2. "You idiot, I could have paid a quarter of the debt with that


    3. There is a quarter million square miles of brush and ribbonleaf prairie out here, a new Mata Grosso do Norte and then some, with some of the lightest population of any fertile area on this planet


    4. Humans had evolved here into something more beautiful hadn't they? Even that quarter second of blurry phonecam video was going to be a stink


    5. There's a leese wallow about a quarter mile back, but I don't want to have to drink the water out of that even with these steriskins


    6. "They can certainly see our fire, but they're still within a quarter mile of us


    7. It's relatively easy to hook lon with stripped archwood fronds, and in a few minutes they had a quarter of the water cleared and a nice little pile of the thick leaves beside them


    8. At the Quarter Sessions old Peelers ‘igh in their rum cups


    9. This all happened within the first one and a quarter seconds after his hand had first contacted the log, he was just swinging it wildly as fast and hard as he could


    10. When he had run in the exercise ring to the limit of his endurance, training for just such an event as this, he had collapsed in exhaustion after less than a quarter this distance and that was without the pack

    11. There were miles between points where they joined and separated, sometimes you were on a river a mile wide, sometimes less than a quarter


    12. Eventually, as she and her new spouse walked down one of the leafier boulevards of the city near the diplomatic quarter, she saw a mansion house of the most ornately carved variety


    13. No candle in a window is as bright as Kunae in the sky, 61Cygni B, a much brighter star than any in Earth’s sky, even Venus, but nothing compared to the full moon of Narrulla, which gave only a quarter the light of Earth’s


    14. The adrenalin rush of the previous evening and the near quarter bottle of Scotch that she had drunk before bed had not mixed well and, when she opened the door to the reporter from the Sun & Mercury, Miss Jones was suffering from the unpalatable effects of her first hangover since her debutante years


    15. Sarah and Jackson were fierce in their attacks; they gave no quarter, and fought skillfully


    16. In a day they will be a quarter million miles ahead of us


    17. They kept only the best quarter of the students but Ava had always been first by a comfortable margin


    18. quarter, she saw a mansion house of the most ornately carved


    19. There was nearly a quarter mile of structure before they got to the temple/palace itself


    20. The center island was only a quarter mile from here

    21. I thought I’d hang around the artistic quarter looking interesting and see if anyone bites


    22. All my horses are quarter horses, and are considered


    23. The quarter century from 2150 to 2175 had seen the start of the Afterlife and was certainly a time of great changes


    24. Suddenly, between 2148 and 2175, there were less than a quarter as many souls coming into Wetat


    25. We have a new scale of creature to contend with in the universe, creatures a quarter billion cubic light years in volume


    26. Harry was appointed by his mother to gather the diners at a quarter to seven at the commons deck and, at least for their first evening, escort them up the street to the restaurant


    27. They continued what seemed like another quarter mile down the hallway and thru a large portal called ‘recruiting’


    28. The tags of the wind wailed high in the atmosphere – a lost soul vanishing as quickly as her realisation of its presence before reappearing again from another, unexpected quarter


    29. About a mile and a quarter from her home


    30. Matt turned his head a quarter turn and shrugged his

    31. Jewish quarter, a drinking acquaintance, and his local


    32. Less than a quarter mile and two more short shafts from the southwest corner of the pyramid and that deep elevator


    33. Pythagoras mapped them for western science: zero, an eighth, a quarter, a third, a half, two-thirds, seven-eighths, one; one and an eighth, one and a quarter, one and a third, one and a half, one and two-thirds, one and seven-eighths, two


    34. An eighth becomes a quarter, becomes a half, becomes the whole, or in a descending pattern of whole to half, to quarter, to eighth


    35. An octave from SOL down to MI, half to quarter


    36. And an octave from MI down a little to RE, a quarter to an eighth


    37. them transfixed for a good quarter hour


    38. quarter smaller than the rest


    39. As they led him about a quarter of a mile up the street, he got to see more of the lower floors of the houses


    40. Now he saw why although the spacing of the actual Scale 0 octave was an eighth, a quarter, a third, a half and so on, that was not the way these were laid out to accommodate all the charted inner vibrations

    41. Here’s the woodworkers quarter where there were plenty of little workshops


    42. Suddenly she’d an idea, and had to do some research, so she quickly excused herself, and started the three quarter mile trek, back to the Big House


    43. If this was a wealthy quarter, he


    44. I’m about a quarter Troll myself


    45. That was a tough day for me because I get home from work, I have to watch Malia, my wife is closing at Starbucks, and so she didn't get home till quarter of nine


    46. This is the largest country in the world, with the largest forest reserves and a quarter of the world’s water


    47. A quarter mile of steps and turns and they were on the great bridge called Konchidrain that spans the narrowest gap in the cliffs at the mouth of the upper Hyadrain Valley


    48. consumer spending for online content in the first 4 months of 2002 was $300 million, a growth of 155% over the first quarter of 2001 (and that’s post-September 11th)


    49. After about a quarter of an hour the choir


    50. quarter hours, and the trains passing by her window














































    1. They were quartered in an Allcock & Sons owned hotel near the factory for the night


    2. They quartered his corpse, fed it to the dogs, and left his head on a pike outside Smyrna’s northern wall


    3. When a French regiment comes from some of the northern provinces of France, where wine is somewhat dear, to be quartered in the southern, where it is very cheap, the soldiers, I have frequently heard it observed, are at first debauched by the cheapness and novelty of good wine ; but after a few months residence, the greater part of them become as sober as the rest of the inhabitants


    4. Small bodies of soldiers, quartered in trading and manufacturing towns, and seldom removed from those quarters, became themselves trades men, artificers, and manufacturers


    5. The clergy of each particular country might be considered as a particular detachment of that army, of which the operations could easily be supported and seconded by all the other detachments quartered in the different countries round about


    6. Each detachment was not only independent of the sovereign of the country in which it was quartered, and by which it was maintained, but dependent upon a foreign sovereign, who could at any time turn its arms against the sovereign of that particular country, and support them by the arms of all the other detachments


    7. We were waved into a field by and MP who stood at the gate here the rest of the Battalion was quartered for as long as the Staff deemed it necessary


    8. Furthermore, he would be quartered


    9. “So I take it you didn’t see the chap out by the old artillery limber that’s a shame because you are dead then?” I looked through the eye holes again to where he had said and quartered the ground but I saw nothing


    10. In its reflected light he eased along the hallway towards the kitchen where the dogs were quartered for the night

    11. White Fox quickly quartered the scrubby thicket, and soon enough the forest grew taller and opened up considerably


    12. I was also drawn and quartered for not having brought her on the interview


    13. One of the ground rules that he laid down was that for that first year, to keep me away from roommates, fraternities, and the other temptations I experienced at Cornell, I was to be quartered in a small room at the Carolina Inn, a hotel smack in the middle of the campus


    14. I was quartered and thrown into an old barrel, hidden away in some forgotten corner of the temple, or so the legends of my deeds that I have since heard, suggested


    15. Then, he quartered it, tying the pieces together through the hamstrings and forearms with a bit of leather so he could carry one forequarter over a shoulder


    16. Aquilonian soldiers were quartered there, not only to protect the ravaged country, but also to keep the people in subjection


    17. Aquilonian regiments were secretly brought to the borders of the marches, the Bossonian chiefs were invited to attend a great conclave, and, in the guise of an expedition against the Picts, bands of savage Shemitish soldiers were quartered among the unsuspecting villagers


    18. “Where should they be quartered?”


    19. The civilian medical personnel who had been quartered in the passenger ship moved into the battleship along with the military personnel


    20. The station management seemed to feel that they would be safer if the children quartered with Peter and Peter acted in loco parentis

    21. I suppose that you are quartered in the Antonia fortress


    22. Cutting down each side of the spine was Max’s first choice, but instead he decided to slice through parallel with the ribs and each rib slice was quartered


    23. Justice has certainly changed since 1690 when Thomas Rogers was hanged, drawn and quartered, and Anne Rogers was burned alive for clipping 40 pieces of silver


    24. My dictionary merely says (1) the quartering, (2) soldiers quartered, and then relapses into irrelevancy; so that it is obvious English people do without the word for the delightful reason that they have not got the thing


    25. There are five hundred men with their horses quartered at the farm, and thirty officers with their servants in our house, besides all those billeted on the surrounding villages who have to be invited to dinner and cannot be allowed to perish in peasant houses; so that my summer has for a time entirely ceased to be solitary, and whenever I flee distracted to the farthest recesses of my garden and begin to muse, according to my habit, on Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, lieutenants got up in the most exquisite flannels pursue me and want to play tennis with me, a game I have always particularly disliked


    26. In the early spring of this year, in those wonderful days of hope when nature is in a state of suppressed excitement, and when any day the yearly recurring miracle may happen of a few hours' warm rain changing the whole world, we got news that a lieutenant and two men with their horses were imminent, and would be quartered here for three nights while some occult military evolutions were going on a few miles off


    27. night work sessions together, the tete-a-tete you had with him when he nearly publicly quartered Margaret; you've esteemed yourself in his eyes as the poster child for the Molan Firm


    28. Here in this God-forsaken world the savage believes himself civil and the nincompoop believes himself a Solomon and the saint is drawn and quartered by the sinners and the wise man’s fate in a world of fools is to be considered a fool


    29. I got in the situation to be drawn and quartered though


    30. She glanced over at the tray and picked up a piece of a quartered sandwich

    31. dressing with quartered tomato


    32. The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged, beheaded, and quartered, by everybody there, neither flinched from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical air in it


    33. This graceful lass, then, helped the young girl, and the two made up a very bad bed for Don Quixote in a garret that showed evident signs of having formerly served for many years as a straw-loft, in which there was also quartered a carrier whose bed was placed a little beyond our Don Quixote's, and, though only made of the pack-saddles and cloths of his mules, had much the advantage of it, as Don Quixote's consisted simply of four rough boards on two not very even trestles, a mattress, that for thinness might have passed for a quilt, full of pellets which, were they not seen through the rents to be wool, would to the touch have seemed pebbles in hardness, two sheets made of buckler leather, and a coverlet the threads of which anyone that chose might have counted without missing one in the reckoning


    34. While he was taken up with these vagaries, then, the time and the hour--an unlucky one for him--arrived for the Asturian to come, who in her smock, with bare feet and her hair gathered into a fustian coif, with noiseless and cautious steps entered the chamber where the three were quartered, in quest of the carrier; but scarcely had she gained the door when Don Quixote perceived her, and sitting up in his bed in spite of his plasters and the pain of his ribs, he stretched out his arms to receive his beauteous damsel


    35. But turn thine eyes to the other side, and thou shalt see in front and in the van of this other army the ever victorious and never vanquished Timonel of Carcajona, prince of New Biscay, who comes in armour with arms quartered azure, vert, white, and yellow, and bears on his shield a cat or on a field tawny with a motto which says Miau, which is the beginning of the name of his lady, who according to report is the peerless Miaulina, daughter of the duke Alfeniquen of the Algarve; the other, who burdens and presses the loins of that powerful charger and bears arms white as snow and a shield blank and without any device, is a novice knight, a Frenchman by birth, Pierres Papin by name, lord of the baronies of Utrique; that other, who with iron-shod heels strikes the flanks of that nimble parti-coloured zebra, and for arms bears azure vair, is the mighty duke of Nerbia,


    36. quartered by themselves for the night, Don Fernando begged the captive to tell them the story of his life, for it could not fail to be strange and interesting, to judge by the hints he had let fall on his arrival in company with Zoraida


    37. Roque, who was paying more attention to the fair Claudia's adventure than to the words of master or man, did not hear them; and ordering his squires to restore to Sancho everything they had stripped Dapple of, he directed them to return to the place where they had been quartered during the night, and then set off with Claudia at full speed in search of the wounded or slain Don Vicente


    38. They quartered him in a room on the ground floor, where in place of leather hangings there were pieces of painted serge such as they commonly use in villages


    39. Here Adeimantus interposed a question: How would you answer, Socrates, said he, if a person were to say that you are making these people miserable, and that they are the cause of their own unhappiness; the city in fact belongs to them, but they are none the better for it; whereas other men acquire lands, and build large and handsome houses, and have everything handsome about them, offering sacrifices to the gods on their own account, and practising hospitality; moreover, as you were saying just now, they have gold and silver, and all that is usual among the favourites of fortune; but our poor citizens are no better than mercenaries who are quartered in the city and are always mounting guard?


    40. No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law

    41. No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law


    42. Then Ralph found himself fighting shoulder to shoulder with the prince, recognizing him by his quartered


    43. I was quartered in a remote station, and to pass the time used to go fishing for big barbel in the river


    44. And he quartered his men in them


    45. And when she found out, once Loverboy had gone away, that Nicky was also fucking Sam, it cored her, essentially, gored and quartered, jammed the blade down into the soft white flesh and ran it around in there until almost nothing of the person she’d thought she was was left


    46. from every inn and eating-house for miles around, arrived to supplement the dwarves and other odd folk that were quartered at Bag End


    47. I pointed to the knife cuts in the quartered haunch of human flesh


    48. MICHAEL SULLIVAN HAD BEEN USING the name Michael Morrissey since he’d been living in Massachusetts, Morrissey being a punk he’d more or less drawn and quartered in his early days as a hit man


    49. ‘You will be quartered at Ptolemy House,’ he said


    50. In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the inhabitants on whom they were quartered































    1. Keeping still and quartering the landscape with her ears, she pinpointed it, even more thrilled when she spotted a flash of bright feathers in a bush a few yards from where she was standing


    2. No doubt if he'd had the wherewithal to afford quartering his own animals at home, he would have done so


    3. I was quartering my area now with my sight and my breath was coming in shallow heaves whilst my nerves were as tight as a virgin’s knicker elastic by the shot


    4. "Keep your stick in the left rear corner to counteract the quartering left cross wind," he told the struggling backseater


    5. 229 This other of the two upstairs bedrooms was used for a variety of special situations, including quartering


    6. They belonged to people who had suffered the traitor's death of hanging, drawing and quartering


    7. My dictionary merely says (1) the quartering, (2) soldiers quartered, and then relapses into irrelevancy; so that it is obvious English people do without the word for the delightful reason that they have not got the thing


    8. "That's quartering," said Jerry


    9. Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: Hamlet and Macbeth with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting


    10. On a handsome mahogany table near him were neatly arranged the quartering knife, the various finely tempered disembowelling appliances (specially supplied by the worldfamous firm of cutlers, Messrs John Round and Sons, Sheffield), a terra cotta saucepan for the reception of the duodenum, colon, blind intestine and appendix etc when successfully extracted and two commodious milkjugs destined to receive the most precious blood of the most precious victim

    11. Waves were quartering across the racecourse now, constantly threatening to throw the boats off keel


    12. Roger Morris and Gordy Adam, up front, struggled to keep the bow of the boat pointed due north under the relentless push of the quartering waves


    13. The wind, however, was gusting erratically out of the west, quartering across the racecourse at roughly a forty-five-degree angle, pushing in bursts and fits at the starboard side of the shell


    14. My pursuers were patiently quartering the hillside and moving upwards


    15. The event here spoken of, was the quartering in the town, after the removal of that well-behaved regiment, the Argyle fencibles, the main part of another, the name and number of which I do not now recollect; but it was an English corps, and, like the other troops of that nation, was not then brought into the sobriety of discipline to which the whole British army has since been reduced, by the paternal perseverance of his Royal Highness the Duke of York; so that, after the douce and respectful Highlanders, we sorely felt the consequences of the outstropolous and galravitching Englishers, who thought it no disgrace to fill themselves as fou as pipers, and fight in the streets, and march to the church on the Lord’s day with their band of music


    16. Ryder, you will find a party of fifty and report to the Quartering Comandant at the house at 1045 hours; he'll show you what we're taking over


    17. 'Wonderful old place in its way,' said the Quartering Commandant; 'pity to knock it about too much


    18. I saluted and the Quartering Commandant drove away through the new, metalled gap in the lime trees


    19. He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected


    20. When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent himself stoutly to his work

    21. The brother and sister hadn't a corner* of their own, but were always quartering themselves on different people


    22. What happens is this: the governor arrives at the place of action, makes a speech to the people, rebuking them for their disobedience, and either stations troops in the farms of the village, where the soldiers, quartering at times as much as a month at a time, ruin the peasants, or, satisfied with threatening them, graciously pardons the people and returns home, or, which happens more frequently than anything else, announces to them that the instigators ought to be punished, and arbitrarily, without trial, selects a certain number of men, who are declared to be the instigators and in his presence are subjected to tortures


    23. Randolph said that as an indefinite postponement was considered as tantamount to a rejection—for it prevents a renewal of the subject during the session, and a rejection does nothing more, as the House had heretofore had a woful experience in the case of certain very pertinacious petitioners; and, as he was afraid, they would again have from a certain body of petitioners, who, he presumed, had not entirely given up their hopes of quartering themselves on the public property—an indefinite postponement, then, being equivalent to a rejection, he certainly was opposed to the rejection of his own motion


    1. It was hot already, she wouldn't want anything more than this and the energy resources available on this planet guaranteed that even in lavish quarters like these, air conditioning would be nothing more than a laboratory curiosity for all time


    2. By now you should be using one-quarter of your chemical fertilizer with three quarters organic fertilizer


    3. "I can do that," she said, "but I wouldn't mind parking my present quarters here


    4. When he was not in a meeting, or otherwise on duty, Bahkmar was sometimes allowed to forget the woes of Haad politics and retire to his private quarters


    5. In these quarters, his life was so empty without the mothers of his children, no matter how delightful the scents of these gardens or exciting the challenges of his adventure parks or voluptuous the sculpture of his houris


    6. Because of that, Bahkmar was in his quarters again


    7. He wished he could imagine what it was like for Angels a century and three quarters beyond the one's who's sister he once loved


    8. Byram expected him back in fourteen local weeks, three quarters of the brief local year


    9. royal quarters above it


    10. of the hallway were the guest quarters

    11. The king called for his slaves to be brought from his quarters


    12. Lyla directed Son to their quarters


    13. open the door to his new quarters


    14. ‘I have sent out messages to the appropriate quarters … I expect to hear news from the Burfords shortly


    15. window in the personal quarters of the chambers


    16. "I think I'm assigned to show you to your quarters after the meeting, would you like me to help warm them?"


    17. She told him of the quarters he would be assigned to and asked about his life at the observatory on the way


    18. Kate and Daniel returned to their quarters and tried to rest


    19. They requested quarters on the mountain the next day


    20. They even ended up taking the large cave that they all initially used as quarters, as their home

    21. Then when they returned to their quarters in the evening, Lance would write down all he saw and heard and ‘felt’


    22. She had captured Lady Ariel’s likeness in flight; it was done so well that Lady Emily had hung it in their quarters


    23. ‘In the main they did, the worst that happened was that Adamant scratched his hind quarters when he was scrambling up the bank but it looks like a fairly superficial cut – one of the men said he would look at it for me


    24. James was asked what their quarters were like, and if they had mountains like Dragons Hill


    25. Once inside her quarters she turned and placed her hand on his arm, “My Lord,” and then more softly, “Tarak, handle this carefully


    26. He left his quarters and headed for the gym where Rayne was working out


    27. He actually thought Ava was sexier than that cherub someone had driven into his quarters last weekend


    28. It was said in some quarters that the drama of the finale had been arranged as the final coup de grace in the search for the ultimate televisual experience


    29. Lord Tarak led Lady Rayne and First Kai along a walkway that angled past the Warrior Quarters, and overlooked what was obviously their training arena


    30. retired from university, I had to leave the campus quarters

    31. Tarak started laughing as she left them, “What I wouldn’t give to see this meeting, unfortunately it is in the Light Brigade’s quarters and we are not allowed there


    32. They opened the doors when they saw the party approaching and bade them enter the private quarters of the Queen


    33. Three quarters of the Hold had already left the previous morning for the Ohmu Forest


    34. He had left his quarters natural again, in spite of the fact that this would be a large meeting


    35. He sometimes rendered some quarters of his own, with walls and windows and views of his grandfather's plantation in Nigeria


    36. Few had seen his private universe, Arthur, Glayet, Heymon, a few women who'd shared his quarters


    37. Alexei was in his quarters when he spotted the Saber heading their way


    38. It takes about three quarters of an hour to drive from Naples to Sorrento and was it an education … I daresay I shall become accustomed to driving over here but believe me it is crazy! The basic rule of the road seems to be ‘go for it’ and they obey this one regardless of commonsense, consideration for other drivers or even practicality


    39. They escorted Tyu to her quarters and were heard conversing with her in her native tongue


    40. Matai backed out of the room and returned to his quarters

    41. A sly look appeared on his face as he stomped into the quarters of his sleeping men and woke them with shouts of ‘to arms’ and ‘wake up!’ He worked up a hasty plan and sent his men on their way to implement it


    42. Other donkeys started braying and the racket was deafening in these close quarters


    43. About three quarters of the way up Rayne suddenly became silent, moments later she shivered and Tarak noted


    44. She came to the brigade quarters and traveled the halls of this wing of the Hold


    45. The vat of water in the Women’s Brigade quarters has been tainted with a slow acting poison


    46. And, you seem to have a strange man sleeping in the women’s quarters


    47. com provides me with a brilliant map of Naples … the Villa dei Mille, where the Embassy was … and still is for that matter … is in one of the older quarters of the city so it is likely that the area hasn’t changed much in the last fifty odd years


    48. Captain Andrid went directly to his quarters and pressed a button the far wall


    49. A smile played across Altera’s face as she turned, left the Queen’s office and headed towards her quarters


    50. When the members of the Light Brigade saw her return to her quarters with the Queen’s sword they knew that the order had finally been given














































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    Synonyms for "quarter"

    quarter after part poop stern tail fourth fourth part one-fourth one-quarter quartern twenty-five percent draw draw and quarter billet canton region country zone province neighbourhood direction district portion semester house assign establish locate post place cut up section split up cleave sever dismember

    "quarter" definitions

    one of four equal parts


    a district of a city having some distinguishing character


    (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided


    a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour


    one of four periods into which the school year is divided


    a fourth part of a year; three months


    one of the four major division of the compass


    a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)


    a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)


    a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar


    an unspecified person


    the rear part of a ship


    piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp


    clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent


    provide housing for (military personnel)


    pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him


    divide into quarters


    divide by four; divide into quarters