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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

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

"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

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

So to the sacred Sun in Memnon's fane Spontaneous concords quired the matin strain.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin

I saw the 'potamus take wing Ascending from the damp savannas, And quiring angels round him sing The praise of God, in loud hosannas.

From Poems by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The windows, with their fleeting, flickering fires, The height and spread of frontage shining sheer, The quiring signs, the rejoicing roofs and spires - 'Tis El Dorado—El Dorado plain, The Golden City!

From Poems by William Ernest Henley

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

I hear the ocean's surging tide, Raise quiring on its carol-tune; I watch the golden-sickled moon, And clearer voices call beside.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

He had just picked up a rail to lay it on the fire in better shape, when he heard a weak voice in quiring: "Does anybody know where the 200th Ind. is?"

From Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro by John McElroy