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The soaring, light-filled quire in Rochester Cathedral has witnessed centuries of worship.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

The queen will be buried at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, which is next to the quire of the main St George's Chapel.

From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2022

But the Bengals are quire charitable to opposing QBs, being picked apart at a 121.0 rating that is better than only Kansas City’s 121.4.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

No energy for a quire of paper to be scrawled across.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2020

I am at the end of this book; there are no further leaves to write upon, but the stubs of that quire I tore out to instruct my friends in writing.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

To duplicate the U.N. talks by per sonal visits to all the capitals of the statesmen he was seeing would have re quired a three-month, globe-girdling tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unwrapping of the old young body, a most delicate operation, re- quired seven days.

From Time Magazine Archive

In very many cases the whole of the nominal value of a share is not called up, i.e., is not re- quired to be immediately paid.

From Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein by William Cotton

"Your husband was in business?" gently in quired Mrs. Bertram.

From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by F. Earl Christy

So to the sacred Sun in Memnon's fane Spontaneous concords quired the matin strain.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin

His philosophy is of the beautiful, as was Keats', and while he lingers by the river's edge to catch the song of the reeds, his gaze is oftener fixed on the quiring planets.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker

"There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims."

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

Heavenly fingers were sweeping the keys, heavenly voices were quiring the melody they had with wanton hand flung into a mortal's brain.

From What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Shakespeare himself ranged from gross naturalism to the quiring of cherubim.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

I hear the ocean's surging tide, Raise quiring on its carol-tune; I watch the golden-sickled moon, And clearer voices call beside.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells