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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
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
"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
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
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
"Hail, holy Ass!" the quiring angels sing; "Priest of Unreason, and of Discords King!"
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
And the sound of the quiring Of all these as one, Desired and desiring Till dawn's will be done, Fills full with delight of them heaven till it burns as the heart of the sun.
From Studies in Song by Algernon Charles Swinburne
I hear the psalm that's sung in heaven, When the morning breaks sae fair, And my soul is sick wi' the melodie Of the angels quiring there.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
"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
For evermore thou hear’st immortal Pan And those melodious godheads, ever young And ever quiring, on the mountains old.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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