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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