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A virtual tour of the area available on the website for St George's Chapel shows it still hanging near the door leading into the quire.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
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
"Have you got them all aboard, Sergeant?" in quired Lieut.
From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy
As of this date, Alytech still has over 10,000 computers sitting idly waiting for the much delayed shipments of hard disks re- quired to repair the machines.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
Then quired the morning stars, and at their concordance Stannum was affrighted....
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
If, as seems quite possible, the quiring of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at the end is the more readily explained.
From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Addison Van Name
The pines, mustering strong among the oaks, joined their mystic threnody to the sad-voiced quiring within.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
"Hail, holy Ass!" the quiring angels sing; "Priest of Unreason, and of Discords King!"
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whil'st this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot have it!
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce
There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren
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