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"We think it paid for a huge renovation project here at that time," says the Very Reverend Philip Hesketh, Dean of Rochester, pointing out the quire paving that was relaid.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Standing in the quire of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, he remembered his mother and offered his people comfort after a year of loss and upheaval.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2022

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

Some of the questions are multiple-choice, while others re quire several sentences to answer.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

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

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

My throat of war be turned,   Which quired with my drum into a pipe!

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

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

The light was now only on the hilltops; the birds were silent; only the frogs in the lush meadows kept up their quiring, a sound quaintly mournful, weirdly charming.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

"Hail, holy Ass!" the quiring angels sing; "Priest of Unreason, and of Discords King!"

From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

With you I am rich enough here, meseeems, With summer and sun and the murmuring streams, And the birds in the branches quiring.

From The Feast at Solhoug by William Archer

But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

The widow was a sweet young thing whom John was bent on marrying, And quiring at her casement seemed romantic to the boy.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy