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Sentences starting with quarter

Quarter of an hour. [4]
Quarter twain! [5]

Sentences ending with quarter

He wore my yellow and green, sir, until he got to weigh one hundred and a quarter. [9]
This being warmer work than they had calculated upon, speedily cooled the courage of the belligerents, who scrambled to their feet and called for quarter. [12]
I was delighted with my new property,--but it cost me four dollars to get there, so far was it beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the fashionable quarter. [6]
With a fair wind they might, with all canvas set--mainsail, foresail, jib, and fore-topsail--make Rozel Bay within two hours and a quarter. [11]
The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
Matters were going well enough, when trouble developed from an unexpected quarter. [5]
That the grievance was very great there was no dispute in any quarter. [7]
But, unhappily, there was alacrity enough in another quarter. [5]
I spoke promptly up and said: "It's no trouble to guess this noble creature's figures height, three feet; length, four feet and three-quarters of an inch; weight, a hundred and forty-eight and a quarter. [5]
Westward, the direction toward which his eyes were turned, lay the necropolis and the ruined strangers' quarter. [10]

Short sentences using quarter

M-a-r-k three... Quarter less three!... [5]
I'll give you a quarter. [5]

Sentences containing quarter two or more times

The proofs of the first quarter of the book were in my hands before I had finished writing the last quarter. [11]
An hour and a quarter of suspense and torture passes, while collars wilt and coats come off, and fans in the gallery wave incessantly, and excited conversation buzzes in every quarter. [9]

More example sentences with the word quarter in them

Yes, I told you--the whole quarter beyond the river, and so it is. [2]
Need I tell you that amongst the dancers in the foreign quarter nine out of ten are the daughters of outlawed parents? [10]
This estate is worth at least a quarter of a million now. [11]
Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
They quarter themselves without special invitation upon the members of the inviting church. [4]
At last the wind sprang up and a cloud appeared--in the right quarter, too, and just at nightfall. [5]
He says: "I will ask the senator to show me an intimation, from any one member of the Senate, in the whole debate on the Toombs bill, and in the Union, from any quarter, that the constitution was not to be submitted to the people. [7]
We don't know who the friend was to whom he offered a quarter interest for the modest sum of two hundred thousand dollars. [5]
Because a man who is a friend must still be half a lover, and a woman cannot bear to give up even a quarter of one. [10]
An old planter, who has lived on the river since 1844, said there never was such a rise, and he was satisfied more than one quarter of the stock has been lost. [5]
Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. [7]
There exists already, what could not be said to exist a quarter of a century ago, a class who have leisure. [4]
From what quarter were the marauding hosts coming on? [10]
In that wealthy, well-ordered house everything stood ready to hand; and in less than a quarter of an hour the tribune Nemesianus was informed that the chamber was ready for the reception of his brother. [10]
We tied the week's washing astern of our boat, and sailed a quarter of a mile, and the job was complete, all to the wringing out. [5]
Those in the wealthy quarter are spacious; painted snow-white usually, and generally have wide verandas, or double-verandas, supported by ornamental columns. [5]
Close by them we saw the intense blue of the skies, through rents in the cloud-rack, and away off in another quarter were drifting clouds of a delicate pink color. [5]
In another quarter we found six Italians engaged in a violent quarrel. [5]
He made his way to a far quarter of the Palace, thoughtfully weighing the circumstances, and was met by Mizraim. [11]
Carver "Captain Colfax was taken to Illinois in a skiff, quarter of an hour since. [9]
Yet so great was his haste that, instead of making a circuit around their quarter, he dashed straight through it at his utmost speed. [10]
So when it was good and dark I slid out from shore before moonrise and paddled over to the Illinois bank--about a quarter of a mile. [5]
All this luxury was as grateful to systems and senses worn out with an exhausting day's travel, as it was unexpected--for one can not tell what to expect in a Turkish city of even a quarter of a million inhabitants. [5]
The other quarter wants science and common sense too. [6]
Turned homeward, she walked for about a quarter of a mile, retreading the path by which she had come. [11]
So I bade Voban go thither at once, getting a horse from any quarter, and to ride as if for his life. [11]
I was present upon most of these occasions, and saw again many faces which I have not seen for a quarter of a century; among them some well-beloved faces--those of our generals and that of Catherine Boucher (married, alas! [5]
A quarter to twelve, and they had run their canoe into the bank beyond which were the smokestacks and chimneys of the mine. [11]
There were dancers too in plenty, in the foreign quarter. [10]
The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written. [6]
James is gone to you but quarter of an hour since with a message, sir. [9]
At a quarter to two a member of the Left demanded that Dr. Lecher be allowed a recess for rest, and said that the Chairman was 'heartless. [5]
It is necessary to show in a brief glance what had been going on in Europe during the latter part of that century, the first quarter of which had been made illustrious in the history of medical science by the discovery of the circulation. [3]
At a quarter to one they entered a sleepy village reminiscent of a New England of other days. [9]
The fisherman offered to make his quarter fifty cents. [6]
Be kind enough to give Zorrillo your company for quarter of an hour, Sergeant. [10]
The town appears to be perfectly quiet at present, as though the late stormy times had cleared our moral atmosphere; but who can tell in what quarter clouds are lowering or plots ripening? [5]
The beach used to be lined with carriages at that hour, and the surf, for a quarter of a mile, presented the appearance of a line of picturesquely clad skirmishers going out to battle with the surf. [4]
They left near three-quarters of an hour before the train was to start for New York; and for the first quarter of an hour after they left, Denzil was in apprehension. [11]
We cannot have this house next season, but I have secured Mrs. Upton's house which is over in the law and science quarter, two or three miles from here, and about the same distance from the art, literary, and scholastic groups. [5]
She seems to think Faith must go with her face tied up, as if she had the toothache,--and that if she opens her mouth to the quarter the wind blows from, she will catch her "death o' cold. [6]
Without a doubt they were under that shed a quarter of a minute after they had left us, and they must have overheard and enjoyed all our confessions and lamentations. [5]
But the wave they feel to be rising does not come from the quarter they expect. [2]
This quarter passed, they came upon the haunts of commerce and great traffic, where many people were resorting, and business was already rife. [12]
I dropped in there while Marco, the son of Marco, was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold piece. [5]
Unfortunately for this theory, it happens that a blow struck out straight is as much shorter, and therefore as much quicker than the rustic's swinging blow, as the radius is shorter than the quarter of a circle. [6]
I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced 40 per cent. [5]
If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in the old quarter with increased earnestness and attention. [12]
You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding-house; the first bugle-call is blown about a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain to rise. [5]
I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him. [5]
Leaning over in the saddle, he whispered: "I'll be back in a quarter of an hour Will you wait? [9]
A few of the richest of them were the most hopeless politically--ever ready to sacrifice principle for an extra dividend of a quarter per cent. [11]
The people of the quarter were not all idiots, of course, but all that begged seemed to be, and were said to be. [5]
The party had the privilege of idling through this ancient quarter of New Orleans with the South's finest literary genius, the author of 'the Grandissimes. [5]
The hands of the old dining-room clock pointed to quarter of eight, and Lise had already made her toilet and departed. [9]
It was in the morning when the sun was by a quarter of its course. [11]
In Robinson's case the Moment had been approaching for a quarter of a century--and meantime the future Conciliator was tranquilly laying bricks in Hobart. [5]
For instance, when the Mississippi was first seen by a white man, less than a quarter of a century had elapsed since Francis I. [5]
The next day the list appears in the papers--a column and a quarter of names, in fine print, and every man in the list a billionaire and member of a couple of churches. [5]
And there was the lion, a-ripping around under me, and roaring and springing up in the air at the ladder, and only missing it about a quarter of an inch, it seemed to me. [5]
They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. [5]
His property, like the houses and hovels of his people, was in the strangers' quarter, west of Tanis, and lay nearest to the streets inhabited by the Egyptians themselves. [10]
They were not the half of a quarter of an hour at it. [5]
When he reached the great market-place in the quarter known as Ta-anch he was forced to bring his steed to a quieter pace, for in front of the Curia--the senatehouse--an immense gathering of people had collected. [10]
When appealed to, the Government Agent suggested that we go and leave him to be picked up by the ship's boat, a quarter mile distant at the time! [5]
Before its advent, the Goodriches and Gores, the Warings, the Prestons and the Atterburys lived leisurely lives in a sleepy quarter of shade trees and spacious yards and muddy macadam streets, now passed away forever. [9]
Slowly Wrangle closed the gap down to a quarter of a mile, and crept closer and closer. [13]
It was exactly the favor which he had done me, about a quarter of a century before, in that same spot, the first time I ever steamed out of the port of New Orleans. [5]
You shall quarter the crown and the lilies of France for blazon, and with them your victorious sword to defend them--speak the word. [5]
The colonel said that the commander of the division was a mile and a quarter away and would receive Balashev and conduct him to his destination. [2]
She had felt that she belonged to this quarter, where all who had any claim to aristocracy lived; here, near the palace and the beautiful leafy trees, her future home had been in her imagination. [10]
Everybody had shunned that locality from the day of my proclamation, but on the morning of the fourteenth I thought best to warn the people, through the heralds, to keep clear away--a quarter of a mile away. [5]
The man finds that he has a quarter in his pocket, but he does not hesitate: he gives it her and trudges home through the storm. [5]
Yet scarcely more than a quarter of a century was needed to make it "timely. [5]
I can usually tell whether they are good by splitting them open and eating a quarter. [4]
His name was Tarautas, and he was known throughout the empire as the most brutal of gladiators, for he had also earned the further privilege of never fighting but for life or death, and never under any circumstances either granting or asking quarter. [10]
I would move surreptitiously by night to a point about a quarter of a mile from the Boer camp, and there I would build up a pyramid of biltong and Bibles fifty feet high, and then conceal my men all about. [5]
Where would you suppose, with a free printers' library containing more than 4,000 volumes within a quarter of a mile of me, and nobody at home to talk to? [5]
Our commerce was suffering greatly by a few armed vessels built upon and furnished from foreign shores, and we were threatened with such additions from the same quarter as would sweep our trade from the sea and raise our blockade. [7]
It seems a strange thing to say of a wealthy, far- seeing, and energetic city of a quarter of a million inhabitants, but it is true. [5]
The old gentleman stood up while his men cried for quarter. [11]
For long he stood gazing into the quiet street, and watched a daughter of the night, with dilatory steps and neglected mien, go up towards the more frequented quarter of Piccadilly. [11]
Then followed the stillest quarter of an hour which had ever been known in that house at that time of day. [5]
Honora, if you still wish to go to the Girls' Home, I have ordered the carriage in a quarter of an hour. [9]
But seeing him still obdurate, with startling suddenness she flung her arms mound his neck--a method which at times had succeeded marvellously--and pleaded coaxingly: "Only a quarter of an hour, Peter. [9]
The train bands stepped ashore and gossiped with friends a quarter of an hour, then pulled out and repeated this at the succeeding villages. [5]
Yet slowly, surely, steadily, in the course of my fifteen visits, the proportions adjusted themselves to the facts, and I came at last to realize that a waterfall a hundred and sixty-five feet high and a quarter of a mile wide was an impressive thing. [5]
She had intended staying in London to the end of the season, not because she enjoyed it, but because she was determined to face Frank's marriage at every quarter, and have it over, once for all, so far as herself was concerned. [11]
Branwell has, by some means, contrived to get more money from the old quarter, and has led us a sad life. [14]
The tender was small, holding but two beside the man at the oars, and owing to the rocks and shallow water of which I have spoken, the Maria lay considerably over a quarter of a mile out. [9]
Caesar's scowling brow showed that a storm threatened in that quarter also; and no sooner had he discerned the aim of the crowd than, foaming with rage, he commanded Macrinus to restore order. [10]
At one moment she is microscopically intellectual, critical, scrupulous in judgment as an analyst's balance, and the next as sympathetic as the open rose that sweetens the wind from whatever quarter it finds its way to her bosom. [6]
At quarter to seven one blustery evening of the April following their fourth anniversary Honora returned from New York to find her husband seated under the tall lamp in the room he somewhat facetiously called his "den," scanning the financial page of his newspaper. [9]
So slumber overmastered Selene every now and then for a quarter of an hour, and each time she dreamed of her sister. [10]
He expected to see smoke rising from the quarter near the prison, and suddenly his lips parted and he displayed his dazzlingly white teeth in a scornful laugh. [10]
But not to see her, and to feel that she was scarce quarter of a mile away, was beyond endurance. [9]
Although a brisk sea was on, the wind had been steady from that quarter all night, and the motion was uniform. [9]
He had not sat in the chapel more than a quarter of an hour, and with his eyes piously fixed upon the ceiling was chuckling inwardly over the joke of his being there at all, when Kit himself appeared. [12]
And the natural result has fallen to me likewise--for a guilty conscience has harassed me ever since, and I have not had one short quarter of an hour of peace to this moment. [5]
To avoid the reproach of the Pharisees, I went into the closet of my bed-chamber to pray, requesting that the quarter should be dropped on the north side of Lyme Street, between Stamford and Tryon; in short, as conveniently near home as possible. [9]

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