give quarter
Example Sentences
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Which probably explains why we give quarter to all these smelly charlatans in the first place.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2012
Yet our faith in her lies in the fact that she will not give quarter to your stupid judgments.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2012
I tell the ministers, I will neither give quarter nor take it.
From The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick
Finally, to give quarter in the military sense is to give conditions absolutely, as opposed to the unmitigated exercise of the victor's power, and, as the most important of all conditions, to spare life.
From Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
If this were so, they would not differ much from the world in general, for it will not give quarter to any man who cannot claim it by his own might.
From The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers by Robert Luce
