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A virtual tour of the area available on the website for St George's Chapel shows it still hanging near the door leading into the quire.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

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

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

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

He set down his barrow, and, putting upon himself the refined aspect that a conversation with a lady re- quired, spoke to Bathsheba over the gate.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

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

Shakespeare himself ranged from gross naturalism to the quiring of cherubim.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whil'st this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot have it!

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce

There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

She had gone out with him, and in some cloud-walled castle, murmurous with harmonies of quiring spheres, and gleaming with their radiance, they would dwell together.

From What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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