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    quadrangle


    1. ” Kortrax had not yet hidden behind the end of the quadrangle this Afternoonday


    2. Ava thought this table looked like it was located in a college quadrangle


    3. He was smoking one at the moment, sitting on a wooden bench in the middle of the quadrangle and watching the smoke spiral lazily up into the still, late, afternoon air


    4. Except for this floater court, the buildings that made up this quadrangle had steep roofs with ornate dormers all along each side, but they were built, not grown


    5. As the guns banged out, the command car was driven slowly around the quadrangle and pulled up in front of the honor guard


    6. They were privates in fatigues who were obviously on some sort of work detail, and were uncertain what to do about this sergeant who was sitting with his head on the steering wheel of an ambulance parked in the kaserne quadrangle


    7. When Sebastian left the wrestling room, Con Achilles drove his Toyota Auriol from the car park to the quadrangle, where a door led directly to the main staircase


    8. Reginald had gone to check on an experiment in the science labs before assembly and Sebastian was crossing the quadrangle when several not-so-bright scions of wealthy parents wolf-whistled and yelled, ‗You touting for business Sebastian?‘


    9. The quadrangle was crowded with students waiting for the assembly bell and a sudden silence descended


    10. He wasn‘t concerned about standing naked in the crowded quadrangle, dozens of the kids present had been naked with him in the swimming pool the previous lunchtime and he knew he looked good, having shaved his pubes that morning

    11. It had come as a nasty shock to realise that virtually every boy in the quadrangle that morning had been prepared to join in the harassment, to take pleasure in the hope of his humiliation and see him made a fool of by two louts


    12. Never again would he assume he had the support of anyone except Reggie, who never left his side for the rest of that morning, furious with himself for not having been in the quadrangle before assembly to protect his lover


    13. Noall was standing by the door to the quadrangle


    14. A young man crossed the quadrangle in tight trousers and I thought, this guy looks interesting, I wonder what he’s like


    15. Instead of immediately turning left, back to the entrance and his car, Sanjay stood for a minute behind the double glass doors that gave on to the quadrangle


    16. All, were built in a sort of quadrangle, that might have taken up the size of a football field


    17. James surmised correctly that the quadrangle, the hideaway was built within, was formed by other buildings backing onto the area


    18. When we stepped into the street out of the deserted main quadrangle, we three, I imagine, were the only people in the town who did not know of it


    19. The farm and buildings, three sides of a quadrangle, embraced the sunshine towards the wood


    20. Sometimes this armor takes the shape of a solid triangle, sometimes that of a solid quadrangle

    21. They hustle through the gates together, gulp fried eggs in the refectory together, march across the quadrangle, perform roll call, salute the colors, shoot rifles, run, bathe, and suffer together


    22. Has Werner ever seen snow this white, snow that was not fouled immediately with ash and coal dust? The only emissaries from the outside world are the occasional songbird who lands in the lindens beyond the quadrangle, blown astray by distant storm or battle or both, and two callow-faced corporals who come into the refectory every week or so—always after the prayer, always just as the boys have placed the first morsel of dinner in their mouths—to pass beneath the blazonry and stop behind a cadet and whisper in his ear that his father has been killed in action


    23. The quadrangle was deserted


    24. In the center of the quadrangle, torches burn


    25. bravely into the quadrangle


    26. On the inside, they dropped from the roof and landed with soft thumps on the turf of the quadrangle


    27. “You can grow herbs in the quadrangle, where the plants will have sunshine but be sheltered from the wind


    28. Caris sat on the low wall around the quadrangle


    29. When we were out in the darkness of the quadrangle we again looked up at the


    30. After landing from his swim Nostromo had scrambled up, all dripping, into the main quadrangle of the old fort; and there, amongst ruined bits of walls and rotting remnants of roofs and sheds, he had slept the day through

    31. Sonia's room looked like a barn; it was a very irregular quadrangle and this gave it a grotesque appearance


    32. IT WAS QUIET NOW in the quadrangle


    33. When we were out in the darkness of the quadrangle, we again looked up at the windows


    34. They burst in a wreath of color round the grim quadrangle in festal imitation of the spring, when the newer beauties and the May buds were coming out; but before Jim South’s windows were only a few green shrubs, which died hard through the summer


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    Synonyms for "quadrangle"

    quad quadrangle quadrilateral tetragon

    "quadrangle" definitions

    a four-sided polygon


    a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings