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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
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
Then quired the morning stars, and at their concordance Stannum was affrighted....
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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
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
The elfins had come back, and were quiring like the immortals.
From What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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
But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
Loftiest and last, by grace of Shakespeare's word, Arose above their quiring spheres a third, Arose, and flashed, and faltered: song's deep sky Saw Shakespeare pass in light, in music die.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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