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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Then quired the morning stars, and at their concordance Stannum was affrighted....

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

"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

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

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

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

From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

I saw the 'potamus take wing Ascending from the damp savannas, And quiring angels round him sing The praise of God, in loud hosannas.

From Poems by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

"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