- a variation of choir.
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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
Some of the questions are multiple-choice, while others re quire several sentences to answer.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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
What seemed like common sense to him was a legal spider web that Higgins was re- quired to think through.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
"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
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
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
There's not the meanest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims; Such harmony is in immortal souls.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Edward Hitchcock
“There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.”
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
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 quiring Muses love to seek the spot And Aphroditè’s golden car forsakes it not.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
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