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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
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
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
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
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
Deep in my heart I hold them all, Their quiring voices cheer my lot; All motionless in one lone spot, Yet God's full heaven in sight and all.
From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles
For evermore thou hear'st immortal Pan And those melodious godheads, ever young And ever quiring, on the mountains old.
From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Shakespeare himself ranged from gross naturalism to the quiring of cherubim.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
Now it turned From the white splendours where God's glory burned, And the long ranks of quiring cherubim— Each with wing-shaded eyelids, near the throne, Who sang—and ceased not—the adoring hymn Of Holy, Holy!
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean
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