give quarter
Example Sentences
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Which probably explains why we give quarter to all these smelly charlatans in the first place.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2012
Yet our faith in her lies in the fact that she will not give quarter to your stupid judgments.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2012
He must give quarter, but it must be confessed that this is trying human nature rather high.
From The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Finally, to give quarter in the military sense is to give conditions absolutely, as opposed to the unmitigated exercise of the victor's power, and, as the most important of all conditions, to spare life.
From Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Wait a bit—but I don’t know how I am to ask you to give quarter to the fiends who did all this.
From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.
