| 单词 | quarter |
| 例句 | It’s not until a quarter till, an hour and a half later, that I rush out of the hot room toward the Cadillac. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Now no one dared leave their quarters at night, and King Claudius’s men watched like hawks, when they were not drinking or sleeping. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Once he’d got the cord stowed away tidily in a big paper bag, he peered out the window, looking left and right, as he’d been doing for the previous quarter of an hour. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When the distant church bell struck the quarter hour, Reynie finished his sandwich and rose from the park bench. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Taken in the middle of the night from your quarters, brought on deck, turned inside out, then tied to a rope, and hurled overboard.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It’s not but half full since it’s only a quarter to seven and the choir doesn’t start singing until seven thirty. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He said he had a quarter ounce of pot left. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I kept pumping quarters into the pay phone trying to reach Sherry. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The quarter was as filled with the sound of singing and of laughter as the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Cricks and creaks came from nearby and distant quarters, as if the house were twitching in a sleep of its own. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “Register by last names and get your quarters assigned.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The boys found their quarters down in tourist class and stowed their gear. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Order are searching the camp for the escapees, and we shall appear with the heads in perhaps a quarter of an hour. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The school is mostly quiet when Izzi and I emerge from the slaves' quarters. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I was cutting and bundling quilting squares into a dozen fat quarters, a-mix-and-matched stack of fabrics all measured and ready to sew. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The holes certainly were rough—“Just right for a lot of vagabonds* like us,” said Bigwig—but the exhausted and those who wander in strange country are not particular about their quarters. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, though he received advice from all quarters, he heeded none of it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z This time he listened for each quarter to drop before pulling on the handle. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He permanently borrowed about a dollar, enough to grab a few quarter waters—the colored sugar water sold in small plastic bottles at the corner store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It came characteristically, from a quarter which nobody had suspected. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she copied the list onto a piece of loose-leaf paper and folded it in half, then in quarters, then in eighths, then in sixteenths. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The house slave who brought this whispered news to the quarter said that the woman wasn’t quality. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His terror—his whining—must have frightened her because she clutched her robe together and gave him a quarter to forget what had happened. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z A few pennies and dimes were on the floor, but the quarters, the nickels, the five-dollar bill, and all of the single dollars were gone. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The sandstone cliffs were home to Buddhist monks who carved caves in them to use as living quarters and as sanctuary for weary traveling pilgrims. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I dragged my pants out of the little hammock and got a quarter out. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking up the slope of the southern face of Kostor, on which we had been infinitesimally crawling all day, I saw a queer rock-formation a quarter mile or so above the road, a castle-like outcropping. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We’d found the car abandoned along a side road a few miles west of East River, and picked it only because it still had a quarter tank of gas. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z More than a quarter of them had been arrested in North Korea, and ten percent said they had been sent to jails, where forced starvation, torture, and executions were commonplace. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Each measure has four beats, four quarter notes equals one whole. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The boat captain dropped them at the Argo II, anchored a quarter of a mile out to sea. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Street Fighter takes two quarters, because it’s a super premium game. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Finally, at a quarter to five, Harry went back downstairs and into the living room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There were two quarters and a dime lying on the ground next to him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z To learn anything more about the quarter, I would have to cast a series of high-level divination spells on it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For the first quarter of the journey, the road was a series of zigs and zags that followed the Swat River on one side and hugged sheer cliffs on the other. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He wanted it run at Belmont, over a mile and a quarter, but not on Memorial Day, which would conflict with Seabiscuit’s schedule. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The silver prow of their shell immediately surged a quarter length ahead of Washington’s. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When next she asked the time, Francie told her it was a quarter past seven and that Neeley would be home soon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the quarter she heard a great deal of talk about the reasons for this. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When it comes, it gives no quarter and doesn’t care about your merits. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “How much will a quarter of a year be?” he asked the postman. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners there were allowed only three “gills” of water—three quarters of a pint—per day; they were not allowed any exercise, bathing, mattress, or change of clothes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The quarters of all the nearby plantations were thoroughly searched and no small number of slaves beaten on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Nixon lifted his chin one quarter inch. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I have to take them if I don’t head back next quarter. How were they?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The most comfortable quarters on the ship were turned over to the penguins, who were the cause of the voyage. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all a joke, Karen. I bought this book for a quarter at the Catholic Bazaar and I’ve got to use it or Mom will say it’s a waste of money.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He sounded as if he was no more than a quarter of a mile away. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter way around the Fist he chased the wolf before he lost him again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t even an official game—it was a preseason scrimmage—but the stands around the rink, the three quarters designated for Fullbrook fans, were jam-packed. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When Ajarry planted there, soon after her long march to the plantation, the plot was a rumble of dirt and scrub behind her cabin, at the end of the line of slave quarters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I’d give them about a quarter apiece; it made me feel good to see how they were coming along. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask her to give me nickels instead of a quarter, because it looks like more. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I dialed it quickly so I wouldn’t forget, so quickly that I got it wrong and lost my quarter. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But at night, when it was cold, they were all grateful for the close quarters. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After his surgery, he had resisted taking painkillers so he would be conscious for the phone calls from his son-in-law updating him every quarter on the score of the Permian-Midland Lee game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, in the light of the quarter moon, they appeared in silhouette on a domed, distant green, like figures dancing in someone’s dream. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z With five cream puffs, almost everyone could have one quarter of a cream puff, I pointed out. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Shadow took the quarter he had used for the coin-toss from the table, enjoying the sensation of a freshly milled coin against his fingers, producing it in his right hand between forefinger and thumb. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Not a ray of alleviation of the present calamity breaks in our city from any quarter,” he wrote to Julia. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There was at present nothing to be learned from the Piccadilly side, and nothing could be done; so I went round to the back to see if anything could be gathered from this quarter. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Because Dad ordered us to stay in the house. We’re confined to quarters.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z James, our designated driver, got the bus out of its space and a quarter of the way past the rows of parked vehicles when we heard the police whistle. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She was stacking up the pepperonis like quarters on her plate. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z But maybe this — her new quarters, her new job, the fact that her life had been spared. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The upper stage of the Saturn V moon rocket was converted into living quarters for three astronauts. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, your dad’s not. And I’m only half, which I guess makes you a quarter.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “The Old Gym. A quarter past twelve. Latecomers will receive a week’s detention. Absentees will be expelled. That is all.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then she went toward the quarter, moving so quietly that she was only a shadow that emerged from deeper shadows, disappeared, emerged again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Dasch and Burger were assigned to the officers' quarters in the forward part of the submarine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z My water powers would protect us both, and we’d detonate the charges from a quarter mile away. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He slipped a quarter into the tin, hanging on to a dime and a few pennies for himself. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After he graduated, he and Margaret built their first lab in a janitor’s quarters at Hopkins—they spent weeks wiring, painting, plumbing, building counters and cabinets, paying for much of it with their own money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Ignatius slammed the telephone down, pressed a quarter into the palm of his still sniffling, blinded mother, and waddled to his room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now African-American and white soldiers shared things like sleeping quarters, meals, equipment, foxholes, trains, planes, and cars. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were more concerned with price—it should be affordable—and that it have the number of rooms they needed, including a study for Charles, as well as quarters for servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned and scrutinized every quarter of the horizon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly a quarter of a mile to the next bend and there was no raft. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The square was in Dorsoduro, the southernmost quarter of Venice, on the other side of the Grand Canal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair; and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A quarter get no farther than North Carolina, the next state. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She went to Chinatown three times a week, thinking of it as one more foreign quarter of Shanghai, like the British concession, or the French. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael slipped three center pages of Seaman Milholland’s notes free and folded them into quarters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They kept running, and they didn’t stop to look back at the big truck or the corrals until they were a quarter mile away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z That would leave the mouse with a half dollar, a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and three cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d say three quarters of the group are women, of which I’m by far the youngest. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Only about a quarter of felony defendants in large urban counties were charged with a violent offense in 2006. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z About a quarter of one’s salary had to be earmarked for voluntary subscriptions, which were so numerous that it was difficult to keep track of them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I left at a quarter past five, because Bep had arrived. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “They run up the starboard side of the ship, up two decks, through the stokers’ quarters, and into their dining hall. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Maycomb’s regular pastors ate free for a week also, and it was hinted in disrespectful quarters that the local clergy deliberately led their churches into holding separate services, thereby gaining two more weeks’ honoraria. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But at the moment, I was having a hard time caring all that much about the mystery of the undroppable quarter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So that night, as dishes were passed around a silent table, and as the clock on the breakfront chimed the quarter hours, Turner decided he would dare the silence and ask. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I went downstairs, crossed the yard, and entered Ali and Hassan’s living quarters by the loquat tree. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Leo had programmed their quarters to adjust automatically to the occupant’s preferred temperature, so it was never too cold or too hot. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I don’t think I have ever seen anything that looked half so beautiful, a quarter so tantalizing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They had heard he could untie a sneaker knot quicker than a kid could spend a quarter. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As she pressed and rolled the dough she kept turning it until it was perfectly round and about a quarter of an inch thick. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry about that, Matthias, my old lad. When these chaps gave up chasing me, I scooted back to my den. Spring cleaning, y’know. A bit late, but I’m only a bachelor in single quarters, what!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Lady was just in. Bought a quarter’s worth of round steak ground. Only I ground too much and here’s the rest on the plate. Just ten cents’ worth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A young kid stretched onto the toes of his Air Jordans, holding out four quarters. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “No way, man. It was the Pats’ hurry-up offense in the third quarter. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I could never make it more than a quarter of the way up, but it didn’t take long before Fang could shimmy to the top. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Brit-Brat scrambled frantically to pick it up, like chasing down a rolling quarter. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z His hand was dipped way inside and he was swirling the quarters around. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I stayed at a doctor’s house in Johannesburg, sleeping in the servants’ quarters at night, and working in the doctor’s study during the day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And now, a quarter of a century later, that choice had landed me right back on this soil. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z At quarter to three, Lou Epstein banged open the lower cash drawer and counted the big bills into a brown envelope. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the now-useless extra life quarter in my inventory and took it out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “He’ll give you a quarter any time. When I cut myself he put on a new bandage every day. A hell of a nice fella.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Muslim quarter wasn’t far from the zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A new, light gray, too dressy, double-breasted suit made him look even shorter than his five feet three and three- quarter inches. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In other neighborhoods, a quarter attend Mass. Neighbors confronted the priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A drunken wreck of a man lurched into Theo, who put a quarter into the filthy outstretched hand, more out of fright than charity. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have slipped into some shop in the proletarian quarters and bought herself a complete set of makeup materials. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “However, according to my birth certificate, I turned forty-five in April. Long before I was Adam Douglas, I was a kid named Vernon Thompson. I’m three-quarters white. The other quarter...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I could see why they needed new quarters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad left on their “hot date” at exactly a quarter to seven. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Some farmers used as much as 200 pounds per acre; one, in an extraordinary excess of zeal, applied more than a quarter of a ton to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Give her a quarter back He look at me. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the month, fourteen and a quarter inches of rain had fallen at the University of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I wake to choking darkness and gasp for breath, trying to push away the walls of my quarters. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z With his workers on strike, Swift was preparing to bring in outsiders to take their place and to provide the strikebreakers with temporary sleeping quarters inside the Stock Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Featuring bottom-level Thoroughbreds and quarter horses, these tracks offered the worst of low- rent racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For most of the first quarter of the century, the eastern colleges thoroughly dominated the regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The quartered carcass of an ox filled the wagon bed, along with two dead sheep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But at quarter speed it was painted on his face: the lips pressed together in a look of pure smugness. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was the home's guest quarters, which doubled as my aunt Geneva's sewing room. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z This mysterious underground railroad was spoken of, in whispers, in the quarter on the Brodas plantation, just as it was on all the other plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We were to be given free rations, sleeping quarters, and a small salary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What made him seek this quarter of the house at an untimely season, when he should have been asleep in bed? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Little Lou was such a stopped-up type that when Ralph was done with his news, they could sit for a quarter hour at a time in complete silence. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I had only put in a quarter, but the machine was whirring and humming. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At a quarter to ten, neat, spruce, and dandified as ever, he made his way to the restaurant car, where a chorus of woe was going on. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z A high concrete wall continues for about a quarter of a mile. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z More than a quarter of a million people come to that museum every week. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The King’s leitmotif, for example, might be 4 quarter notes played on a trumpet sound on a keyboard, or using an interval of a 5th on any instrument to sound regal and stately. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z When the creatures strained against their leather straps and pawed at the air, their barking made every soul in the quarters want to run to their cabins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Continuing, he described the cabin in which he claimed that the Answer 221 foursome had stayed the night: twin beds, an old Coca-Cola calendar, a radio that wouldn’t play unless the customer deposited a quarter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m hungry, Mister White Man. I need a quarter for lunch.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He would not meet the elder’s eyes, but, even in these cramped quarters, swiveled and contemplated the walls furiously. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He stretched out his leathery palm, which now held two shiny quarters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Before we left the table and scattered for the day, Mother said, “We will be having guests Friday evening, so you will all be ready for inspection at quarter past six.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Thanks to the Christian Union, Havens’s present quarters as a ministry intern at Brown are actually more upscale than his home in St. Louis. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As he struts off to hand over his quarter, someone clucks like a hen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Last year, I helped clear out the lost-and-found bin after every quarter. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “I believe,” replied Socrates, “the spot is about a quarter of a mile lower down, and there is, I think, some sort of altar to Boreas there.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was divided into quarters like a compass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I wonder what William Wallace said when they were tying him to the horses that would rip him into quarters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He wakes in distant quarters of the night and sees Frederick in his bedroom in Berlin, wearing his eyeglasses and necktie, freeing trapped birds from the pages of a massive book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Five nights a week the working people of the Pantheon quarter danced there. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Ophie could not see Mama parting with a nickel, let alone a whole quarter for a picture show. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She realized that the corridor she had walked in up above was merely a long entranceway, and that the halls around her were the rats’ real living quarters. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But to use a grenade down here, in such close quarters, beneath rubble presumably littered with live 88-millimeter shells, would be suicide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I knew that back in the ’808, placing your quarter on a game’s marquee was how you reserved the next turn on the machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Opening the cash register, Milton gave me a stack of quarters to use in the jukebox. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the next barrel, coal bricks at the quarter mark, then dregs of coal bricks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The two were at close quarters now, and Iros lunged hitting the shoulder. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A dry cleaner’s run by his uncle who pretended to sneeze quarters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The door to the stokers’ quarters was locked. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Our oarsmen were so fresh, by dint of having occasionally let her drive with the tide for a minute or two, that a quarter of an hour’s rest proved full as much as they wanted. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z We were down by ten in the second quarter. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It was only on very rare occasions that one saw inside the dwelling places of the Inner Party, or even penetrated into the quarter of the town where they lived. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Great God, a deuce and a quarter! What year?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Petunia gave him a severe look, and then nodded pointedly at Dudley, who had already finished his own grapefruit quarter and was eyeing Harry’s with a very sour look in his piggy little eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “You can kick me for a quarter,” he sang, looking impishly at the white man out of the corners of his eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In a 4/4 time signature, there are four beats in a measure, and the quarter note also receives one beat or count. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I picked up the phone, dropped in two quarters and dialed my moms at the house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Call it, the ref says, then tosses the quarter. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “They will start frowning if you remain seated. Shall I remove you to the servants’ quarters?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Each had a half a banana for dessert, and a quarter of Sammy’s doughnut. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Ending with quarter notes, half notes, or even quarter notes and a rest gives a sense of finality to the rhythm. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Sissy outlined circles on the paper with a quarter and Francie cut them out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She split things in half, then quarters, speedily producing florets, cubes, slices, and shreds. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On top of that, about a quarter of Amazonia is not forest but savanna—the Beni, in Bolivia, is the biggest chunk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The key was to eliminate Sanders as soon as possible in the third quarter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The waning quarter moon seemed larger than the sun. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z People are always forgetting to do that, so I get the left-behind quarters. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z At a quarter after there was still no sign of them. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Laila liked the violet plastic drinking glasses they used and the quarter lemon that always floated in the water pitcher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In March, Etienne turns sixty and Madame Manec stews little clams—palourd.es—with shallots and serves them alongside mushrooms and quarters of two hard-boiled eggs: the only two eggs, she reports, she could find in the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I saw her hind quarters fall off to one side. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lakers had a five-point lead after the first quarter, but I was too nervous to pay much attention to the game. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the second quarter, he lined up and saw the Cooper secondary once again out of kilter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The duel stretched on: an eighth, a quarter, a half. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At a quarter to one Ishmael stopped in at the office of the Island County Power & Light Company on the corner of Second Street and Main. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead of backing down the bus stairs, I squeezed inside, pulling close to the rail between the people getting off, and dropped my quarter in the money slot. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Martial law continued with an eye to the necessity of taking emergency measures for the public disaster of the endless downpour, but the troops were confined to quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Before I can stop her, she puts the quarters in. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The athletic field was at least a quarter of a mile from the school and the residence where the brothers lived. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There's an ice cream shop where cones cost a quarter. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He turned a pawn on its side and spun it like he was spinning a quarter. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She explained that her master named her Bessie, but in the quarter everyone called her Cora because she looked so much like her mother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The entrance to the straits was still a quarter mile ahead. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the next quarter century amateur bone hunters discovered dozens of what they believed to be ancient skeletons in what they believed to be ancient sediments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He left Shadow his copy of Herodotus with several actual coins hidden in the pages: two quarters, a penny, and a nickel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The rest of Ferula’s quarters seemed to Clara to fit precisely with the nightmare that had begun when her sister-in-law appeared in the dining room of the big house on the corner to say goodbye. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, even in a crowded warren, visitors in the form of young rabbits seeking desirable dry quarters may be tolerated...and if powerful enough they may obtain and hold a place. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the game, resting on the metal brace that held the glass marquee in place, was a single quarter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the close quarters of the ’tween deck, it is hard to miss much. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z On June 14, Ulbrickson invited Royal Brougham upstairs in the crew quarters to see something. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The fire was only about a quarter of a mile from White’s wagon and was moving closer. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z But in those close quarters, a flash would be suicide and he knew it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She dug in the pockets of her slacks and came up with a quarter. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He pulled his pager from his pocket and fished a quarter from his bookbag. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dylan even tries dropping a quarter into the pit to see what happens. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I got my quarter back after the third call and tossed it up in the air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Another open doorway to another class with The Taker, winter quarter of AP English Comp. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Because of the tight quarters—the whole house would have fit in Aunt Ivy’s parlor—the bed had been hinged to the wall. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z After the speech, Kissinger and Nixon walked together toward the president’s living quarters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Through the rest of January and into February, rowing six days a week now, rowing from quarter slides and half slides, taking shorter strokes to focus on technique. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Everything Henry’s ever done publicly has probably been privately rehearsed in stuffy royal quarters like this one. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t the quarter roll down the hill with the nickel?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Still in the same quarter, he lined up over center and saw Cooper in one-on-one coverage against Lloyd Hill. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After banging on the bottle and proving how normal it is, I hold up a quarter and slap it through the small cut in the water bottle. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z At last, by Seaborg’s reckoning, they had one quarter of a millionth of a gram of element 94. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Here’s all I got,” his mother said, pushing a quarter to the side of his plate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Herbie followed these directions, cleaned about a quarter pound of dead ants from the hummingbird feeder, and poured in a fresh sugarwater solution. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, a sleek merchant on a grey mare reined up by Yoren and offered to buy his wagons and everything in them for a quarter of their worth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But then a quarter of a billion people, a whole subcontinent, rallied behind Gandhi—and they twisted the British lion’s tail! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “She didn't eat lunch. Caught her wandering the servants’ quarters a little while ago. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z For example, in 3/4 time, a measure can have any combination of notes and rests that is the same length as three quarter notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Stagehand and Sea- biscuit drove side by side, blazing through a final quarter in 24% seconds, astounding for a distance race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one trouble with his new quarters. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the quarter in his pocket and drained his cup of coffee in one long swallow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There were only four minutes left in the fourth quarter, and we were down by five points. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “What about the town of Nogent-sur-Oise? It burned this week. A fire started by Christians in the Jewish quarter. People died.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z At a quarter of a mile down the river, it looked as if the Orange of Syracuse would, as predicted, settle into the lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mark heard gasps and whispers and saw fingers pointing out of the closed quarters they passed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A quarter mile down the road he stopped and looked back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Since the Black Panther newspaper cost a quarter, I told myself Fd only skim the front and back pages as I stacked the papers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Quite so. At a quarter past one, to the best of my belief, I was talking to the young American fellow—secretary to the dead man.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He rode the ten-dollar bills back to where he’d found them, counted a dollar from his own wallet to pay for the sandwiches, dropped it in the delicatessen till, and added a quarter tip. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Or why not write two two as two four, giving quarter notes the beat instead of half notes? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She walked for about a quarter of a mile and then suddenly broke into an oblique run up the soft part of the beach. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z "I suppose you know the Trunchbull has a lockup cupboard in her private quarters called The Chokey? Have you heard about The Chokey?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z A few years prior, Mrs. Piatigorsky had been criticized in some quarters for not acceding to Fischer’s demands for the 1963 tournament, which had led to his not playing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I left during the fourth quarter of Coop’s game so I could come get ready for tonight, and now I’m in said sanctuary, freaking the flip out. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He began a trick even more pointless: a one-handed half-dollar-to-penny transformation, but with his two quarters. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Almost every night, somewhere in the South, a slave slipped away from the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “He wouldn’t know a quarter if he was to see it, would he.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The pit fire was burning, low, and the king’s shadow on the Wall had shrunk to a quarter of its former height. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But between me and where my parents should be are the quarters of half the Collective. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I have to go five blocks out of the way and use up a lot of quarters, but it’s worth it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Shadow shrugged and put his hands back in his pockets, loading a quarter in one hand, a folded-up five-dollar bill in the other. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z By the beginning of the third quarter, the score was tied at 34. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The number of cows slaughtered in Chicago grew from a quarter million in 1875 to two and a quarter million in 1890. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I put our quarters in the basket and she lit the candle. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The opponent's quarter was getting pinched or the opponent was getting punched. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z There the house lost its aristocratic bearing and the kennels, chicken coops, and servants’ quarters began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteen years that I lived in that house, I stepped into Hassan and Ali’s quarters only a handful of times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He bypassed all the nickels and dimes before finally picking up a quarter and dropping it in the boy’s hand. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z At the head rode the King, for only he wore the royal colors and the royal quarterings of the banners. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z We had hiked 500 miles, a million and a quarter steps, since setting off from Amicalola. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A quarter mile off to our left there was a wooded area that ran halfway up a small hill. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I struggled for a quarter hour till Sewing Mistress rushed to my side. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Underneath was a scabbed spot about the size of a quarter where someone had, apparently, pulled a handful of hair out by the roots. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The people flocked to the abandoned Greek camp to see the sights: here Achilles had sulked so long; there Agamemnon’s tent had stood; this was the quarters of the trickster, Odysseus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes slaps two quarters on the counter and leaves the coffee steaming in its thick white mug. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The next quarter of the sweater money I turn into something good, like chicken or cheese or, one memorable day, five jars of pickles. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Reichenstein’s disease is now chiefly of historic interest, for new water supplies were provided a quarter of a century ago, from which arsenic was largely eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He studies my face, and I feel self-conscious, wondering if they’ve noticed I’ve only had two bites of meat and a quarter of a potato, and worrying I’ll somehow get in trouble. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She tied the horse to a tree in the woods near the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I fed the quarters in one by one. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The slaves’ quarters are dark but for one light. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He drank off about a quarter of his beer before answering. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Obviously his assault was staged to unhinge me, the same way Darius’s presence in my quarters was. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Most often these dialogues took only a few minutes, but by the end of September there had already been two occasions when they had lasted more than three quarters of an hour. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I came out at the top of the Form One class in exams at the end of the first quarter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a boat was in sight except a single canoe traveling parallel to a tree-wreathed shoreline, children in life jackets at the flashing paddles a quarter mile off. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The lake wasn’t all that big—maybe a quarter mile long, so we didn’t have far to go when I saw it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The tunnel dropped underneath the bay for nearly a quarter mile before it rose onto the island. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Maybe you are come to a place that will not prove much to your taste, but you will not be consulted as to your quarters, I promise you.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery” He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Alex watches Henry’s face in quarter profile, the slight pain that moves under his skin, but he shakes it off quickly and takes Alex’s hand back up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel. And the meeting you speak of has already occurred—you have been reading it for the past quarter of an hour.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It burns through to the living quarters and climbs the front staircase where, halfway up, it meets Charles Berberian himself, who tries to smother it with a blanket. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So they began to hold dances night after night in the quarters, usually behind Tea Cake’s house. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Why how do you do?” she said with a magnificent smile that illuminated not only her face but the entire quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s how he handles all of his problems, from fights with mom to a bad fiscal quarter for his business. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Ahead of them the broken ground sloped down toward a grove about a quarter of a mile away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, heaven knows from what quarter of the world, fatality brought in Odysseus to the swineherd’s wood far up the island. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Four days later, it took him 2:08K, trotting horse time, to run the race distance of a mile and a quarter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Anybody who wanted to play could sign up and they were guaranteed at least a quarter of playing time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z And when another little boy looks up from his set of sides and says, “It’s a quarter past three,” my heart basically jumps out of my throat and beats him up. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z By the time they reached the south end of the island, the Cal lead had been whittled down to a quarter of a length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For a quarter of a century he had remembered the night with grief, and it had been with him through all the searches for the Grail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time, sleeping in different quarters in Cange—the patriarch of the place was, after all, a priest—Ophelia was determined to rise early in the morning, ahead of Paul. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the end they decide on a shingled two-story colonial in a recently built development, a house previously occupied by no one, erected on a quarter acre of land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It hadn’t moved from its cramped quarters all day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I put my hand down and looked at the painting of a sailboat on the wall, wondering if anyone on that boat had to share quarters with someone they didn’t have much in common with. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z But we’re already halfway through the quarter, I’ve done so much work on her, and our big performance is less than a month away. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z There is an abundance of interesting fact relating to all our major diseases, and more items of information are coming in steadily from all quarters in biology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, between a quarter and a third of the inmates had killed somebody. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is delicate with the staff,” said Glocer, who has cut the entire Reuters staff by roughly a quarter, without deep cuts among the reporters. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z That year, 1831, when Harriet regarded herself as sufficiently grown up to wear a bandanna, she kept hearing a strange, fascinating story, told and retold, in the quarter, in the fields. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They may walk back to their quarters with a friend, but they say nothing on the way. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I check my pocket watch; it’s quarter to ten. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If I were caught there would be no quarter, but I’m beyond caring. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She handed me four quarters and told me that we needed a gallon of milk—which we really didn’t need but I’m not stupid. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z So widespread and heavy was the loss that 14 other beekeepers joined him in suing the state for a quarter of a million dollars in damages. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z François was stern, demanding instant obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience; while Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck’s hind quarters whenever he was in error. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z At three quarters of a mile, they were just one second off the world record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This led to the servants’ quarters at the back of the villa. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But a handful of families would let their domestics keep their children with them, living in little maids’ quarters or flatlets in the backyard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Before he went back to watch the final quarter he turned to Ben and said, “See you in school, pissant. It isn’t the end of the world.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At a quarter to six I swept the floor, dumped the dirt into a newspaper, along with the rotten beans, and tossed it into the stove. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The three quarters of a mile in the blazing heat, from Nuthanger to the foot of the hill, had cost Hazel more pain and effort than anything in his life. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She made it up after she caught me standing guard while Jenna stole quarters from the cow-shaped cookie jar in their kitchen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z In our house, we could hear the great leather belts of the machinery whirring and slapping rhythmically a quarter mile away. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “You have your mother’s eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wand. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Thula, with yet another infant to tend to, was no happier in their cramped quarters in the basement than she had been in the cabin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Harry asked them after a quarter of an hour’s quiet crystal gazing. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He walked a quarter mile, a half mile, eyes down. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Casinos encourage this tendency by making sure that every quarter that’s won in a slot machine causes lights to blink and makes its own little tinkle in the metal tray. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Don't forget his living quarters," the tall man said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As Boggs tells Finnick and me to report to the area that matches our assigned quarters — in my case E for Compartment E—Plutarch strolls up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "About a quarter of a mile down the road." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The crime, then, was not committed at a quarter past one. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Above the marshes, a pale quarter moon waited in a light blue sky, with mares’ tails clouds brushing against it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have to make it fit for living in until I could move to my permanent quarters on the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Milo had at his disposal sumptuous quarters inside a salmon-pink palace, but Yossarian and Orr were not allowed to accompany him inside because they were Christian infidels. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The first blow had paralyzed its hind quarters, so then the circle could close in and beat and beat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A quarter mile to the east, pinched between the Nuptse Wall and the West Shoulder of Everest, the Khumbu Icefall spilled through a narrow gap in a chaos of frozen shards. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Rather thicker than one usually sees . . . quite rigid . . . ten and a quarter inches. Avis!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Floating in her quarters, she gently touched the bulkhead to stop drifting. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter mile from Fry, a couple of human-shaped silhouettes were visible at the forest border. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Maxim threw his cigarette away, a quarter smoked, into the empty grate. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z What I didn’t know was that the hippie’s own quarters were properly heated, and that the students who had lived there in the past had come there well armed with space heaters and electric blankets. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Safe in Kira’s quarters, Matt perched on the bed with his bare feet dangling and told them about the girl who sang. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of them killed it and made a fire and when the large-cut chunks had been cooked, the commander asked that all of it be brought to his quarters. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Across the room, Mad Sweeney was feeding quarters into the jukebox. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But my father rubbed his hands in delight, for even these lowly quarters proved his good fortune. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At the end of the first quarter, the Celtics were up by three. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Cole flung the rock, even though the bear was nearly a quarter mile away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It was a street in one of the poorer quarters, where there was an open market which was generally crowded and noisy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I looked ahead another quarter mile and saw another pair of spiral ramps, but I couldn’t see much else. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After an hour and a quarter of delay, Avianca was cleared for landing. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There were riots there, and men tumbled olT the piers, pushed by crowds; wealth would not deign to pass through those quarters, for fear of what was yelled and what was thrown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The cab driver delivered me to an address on Mobile Street, the main street of the Negro quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But I would say”—her voice very flat—“‘Insert a quarter in the meter’ or ‘Betty bought a bit of better butter.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Drenched to the skin by torrential rain, they unloaded the shells from a baggage car, lifted them over their heads, and hustled down to the river to stow the boats and inspect their new quarters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He offered a quarter to pay for the call, but the young feller wouldn’t take it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I climbed around him and pressed myself against the door, struggling to stay cool in the hot, cramped quarters. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I’m hungry, Mister White Man. I’m dying for a quarter,” Shorty sang, drooling, drawling, humming his words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But we only had the wagon three quarters full on this run. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Now, Kwang’s political machinery was just beginning to market him in the other quarters of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They could figure that if a man had five children and seven mules, he cleared a quarter by taking his family to the show. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We set off down the road for the campground and had walked about a quarter of a mile when from behind there was the crunching sound of a motorized vehicle proceeding cautiously through snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He remembered what Mr. Andrews had told him: The ladders are in the stokers’ quarters, and they run up three decks. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z The chap circled overhead for three quarters of an hour and tried to come down half a dozen times before finally bottling out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As Easter Sunday dawns, Herold and Booth are camped in a grove of pine trees a quarter mile off the main road. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The quarters were so close and the speed so high that the jockey had to cut sharply in and out to avoid running up into the hind legs of horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It took him a quarter of an hour to read the title alone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She had announced her arrival in the quarter by singing the forbidden spiritual—“Go down, Moses, ’way down to Egypt Land”—singing it softly outside the door of a slave cabin, late at night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been “believed in some quarters that brilliant new ideas would flow from the establishment of competition,” he wrote Colonel Fields at the AEC. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With about three minutes left in the second quarter and the game scoreless, Permian faced a second and thirteen from the Carter 31. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After at least a quarter of an hour of watching, she could stand their stupidity no longer. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They had covered more than three quarters of a mile before Bigwig and Hazel halted to rest and to make sure that no one had fallen behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe a quarter of all inmates had antisocial personality, the psychologist at the Academy had said, and I was ready to believe it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It skidded a quarter of a mile before it could come to a stop. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Brett did not turn up, so about quarter to six I went down to the bar and had a Jack Rose with George the barman. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Even though their place was walking distance to my high school, I decided that I didn't want to be in such tight quarters. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z On the top floor, in what we guessed was originally the nuns’ quarters, we found a trunk full of dolls, old, old dolls, with leathery skin that was broken and creased from wear or age. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In the case of a text, the information lost one- quarter of its value in ten minutes and half its value in five hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They made a sound like money, like quarters tumbling together. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But really it is far away—nearly a quarter of a million miles from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "The quarters! Boy, are you a fool? Didn't you know better than to take a trustee out there?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer was a quarter and a nickel because the riddle said only one of them couldn’t be a nickel. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Under the sink were some old rags—and could you believe it?—a quarter bottle of furniture polish. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z We scored the first five points of the third quarter, and then Coach sent me into the game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He pranced up, his hind quarters leaping independently from side to side, nose close to the toad, his voice shrill with enthusiasm. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Those born in the last quarter of the year might as well give up on hockey too. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Other times one of the teachers would give me a quarter to buy a Coca-Cola. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The third quarter was as dull as the first two, but Cypress Bay’s offense suddenly got it together in the final period. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d spent the last three days in close quarters with the guy, getting razzed by the other campers and embarrassed a million times a day, constantly reminded that I was related to him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Our old quarters have been destroyed by the bombings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He opened his right hand to display the quarter that had been there all along. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z A quarter of an hour later, angry voices were being raised. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Some animals from my neighborhood. They’d beat up their own grandmothers for a quarter.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Since she works in a laundromat with coin-operated machines, she's always giving customers quarters for their dollars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z That must mean the Commander is in the house, in his own quarters, past the dining room and beyond, where he seems to stay most of the time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z So that bear retreated to consult the bear above him, and before long Lyra was ushered inside the palace again, but into the state quarters this time. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Nobody felt like sleeping, either, and the survivors of the battle didn’t go back to their quarters after they landed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A Welsh dresser bigger than my bedroom hid the deepest quarter from sight. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The head office was only about a quarter of a mile away and was a simple stone structure that resembled our own section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ubiquitous in highlands art, the Andean cross is a stepped shape that some claim is inspired by the Southern Cross constellation and others believe represents the four quarters of the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Tommy lived in what everyone called the home-house—a four- room log cabin that once served as slave quarters, with plank floors, gas lanterns, and water Henrietta hauled up a long hill from the creek. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The crew quarters stood against the outer hull of the constantly spinning ship to maximize simulated gravity. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I am to relieve them in a quarter of an hour, and I am entering this on Lucy’s phonograph. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Two small rooms at ground level near the gatehouse served as our new quarters. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Does she still perform on the quarter hour?” he asks, drawing a watch from his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Quebrada Tacahuay, the other Science site, was closer to the shore but even drier: its average annual rainfall is less than a quarter inch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I put the quarters in and the bag plopped out at the bottom of the machine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The sun was a quarter of the way down from what even he knew was high noon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Pratt’s analysis, quarter mile world record setter Truckle Feature had a peak speed of just under 80 feet per second, or 54 mph. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Simplon Orient Express arrived at Belgrade at a quarter to nine that evening. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Like his face could be carved on a nickel or a quarter. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The three of us walked around the gym arm in arm, then ran over to the giant valentine and paid a quarter to take a picture together. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Ten past five ... then a quarter past five . Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There was never anything more than that to suggest that all was not well in the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Other times, Bit, Francy, John John, and Trista would challenge people to quarter wars, which is when two people stand quarters up on a desk or a table and spin them like spinning tops. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Matthias took a group of Redwall mice to instruct in the use of the quarter staff—he had discovered in himself a natural skill with the long ash pole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Now, however, each quarter of Chicago was insisting on a location within its own boundaries, and the squabbling had stymied the board. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After all, in arithmetic, four quarters adds up to the same thing as two halves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nowadays Cahokia Creek, which flows from the north, and Canteen Creek, which flows from the east, join together at a point about a quarter mile northeast of Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The house looked as though the architect had realized too late that he was designing residential quarters, not a church. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Chester, the boy who prowled the quarter with such enviable cheer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He did say that Pavey probably had “gone easy” on him and that he was amazed that he’d even lasted a quarter of an hour against him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It cost a quarter to look into a machine for one minute. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The servants were all in their own quarters beyond the kitchen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The sun shines for only a quarter of the day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her final night in the quarters was sleepless, even though she needed her strength. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Below, ruins stretched out for maybe a quarter of a mile: limestone blocks, a few broken walls and some tiled holes in the ground like wells. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And then, as the seconds of the fourth quarter ticked by, we did believe. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z A dotted quarter note, for example, would be the length of a quarter plus an eighth, because an eighth note is half the length of a quarter note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z At that moment, Timmy, who had slipped out to the slave quarters again to look for his missing charm bracelet and, he hoped, more games with the chains, appeared in the living room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the road turned, it wasn’t possible to see very far, no more than a quarter mile. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z For a quarter, then half a mile, she fairly smoked after the coyotes until they ran out into the dry river/lake bed once again. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Dr. Pérez led us on a tour of the patients’ quarters, including little houses and apartments set among gardens and palm trees. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For my mom's birthday last year, I filled a pencil case with quarters and wrapped it in newspaper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There someone was crying for help in the slave quarters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are like he was,” Keith enlightens me, “and just like him, you were most likely to die the same way—a quarter of what you could have been....” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I look over my shoulder every quarter mile. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A note that lasts a quarter as long as a whole note is a quarter note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One time a cancer the size of a quarter popped out of her right nipple. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When the tour resumed, Farmer kept remarking on how pleasant and peaceful the quarters were, and finally I said to him, “I find them kind of depressing.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Just a right at the first stop sign, and maybe a quarter mile from there.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z On the screen, the team scored late in the fourth quarter to ice the game for good. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We are quartered in a small dark factory adapted to the purpose. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night of the nineteenth a quarter moon rose over the sea while the fleet stood seven miles off Tarawa. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He reached in his pocket and took out a quarter. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I was only a quarter Korean, and most people couldn’t tell just by looking at me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I saw the sun again, a quarter of it, and then a slice, and then it disappeared, the last time ever that the sun would set on a day my sister had lived. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z At quarter to eight Sunday mornings, I saw the O’Briens and the Van Hoyts walking down the empty sidewalk past our house and I knew. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At Setauket a fine quarter horse drank from a trough in a field which the planes had sprayed; ten hours later it was dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Old bedsheets, purchased for a quarter each at the thrift store, turned into curtains, a tablecloth, pillow covers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They settled in, had a quick dinner, then sat around an empty spot in their tight quarters—no fire for fear of being seen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “At the mercy of the winds, at the mercy of the sea, to the quarters of the New World, we came. Transients. Nomads. I bid you welcome.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z One of the tasks he had to oversee, in 1710, was the move away from the cramped quarters at Gresham College to larger premises at Crane Court. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “But you got the quarter, and I don’t want to go all the way up there by myself.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She almost rolled her eyes, but she gave me my quarters. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She reached into her pants pocket and took out two quarters. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Well-dressed tourists mingled with the derelicts of the quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He put on a clean shirt at two o’clock, another at three o’clock, and another at quarter past four. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z She walked slowly and thoughtfully to the quarters. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z And the signal from an earpiece can stretch only a quarter of a mile at most. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He was behaving with the beastly selfishness of Man, taking all he could get from one quarter, and then, when that was used, going to another. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “One morning we woke up when the sun was nearly a quarter way cross the sky. Bright as anything. And blue. Blue like the ribbons on my mother’s bonnet. See that streak of sky?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed the way his hind quarters shifted over to the right, never in line with the front, yet always in perfect rhythm. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is you all seen anything of a quarter down here.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first quarter of 2000, the poorest 10 percent of workers were earning only 91 percent of what they earned in the distant era of Watergate and disco music. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Remembering something from her own quarters, Kira went to the bathroom. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Along one canal more than 500 dead fish were seen floating or lying on the bank on a stretch of less than a quarter of a mile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A bird on one side, a man's profile on the other, united states of America, in god we trust, quarter dollar embossed on one side, and liberty and 1990 on the other. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A common prank was to send a new bug boy all over the track looking for the phantom “key to the quarter pole.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo liked his quarters okay, but he felt safest here in the heart of the ship—in a room filled with mechanisms he knew how to control. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “She curled up in a corner of the servants’ quarters. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Uncle Vernon laid aside his paper with a deep sniff of disapproval and looked down at his own grapefruit quarter. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Rémy holds the hand of a little girl a quarter of his size while two others fuss over him. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The Big House was mellow with light, and in a sense, so were the cabins in the quarter, for the flickering light from the fireplaces showed through the doorways—soft, yellowish. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was right: After Regina had visited him once, she wrote to him about his cramped quarters: “You can hardly turn around.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at a hundred and forty-five million pairs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z After another quarter of an hour, however, he was forced to conclude that the rest of his mother’s letter was gone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z At the time of the conference at least a quarter of the Haudenosaunee were former captives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The protests of the workers this time were based on the lack of sanitary facilities in their living quarters, the nonexistence of medical services, and terrible working conditions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was about a quarter mile back to Toby’s trailer, and it wouldn’t take him two minutes on foot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They looked at toys for a quarter, shoes for two dollars, rifles for forty-seven dollars, and even plans for a whole house for one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-four dollars. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Now, Michel, I am going to ask you an important question. Where were you at a quarter past one?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z They flew to the quarter pole, still sustaining a fearsome clip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was quarter to one in the morning when Mosca moored his boat at the last bridge before the bay. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The Santa Anita Handicap was a grueling mile and a quarter, and Seabiscuit still had more than three quarters of a mile to go. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two inches nothing and a quarter,” answered Stuart. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z I kept two quarters for gum and Good & Plenty. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z It was past the half hour, already nearly quarter to. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we left the hospital, it was a quarter after three. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But Nenny, who is stupider, already is asking how much and I can see her fingers going for the quarters in her pants pocket. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He settled his hind quarters coyly, and lay still, looking up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z You could buy at Lee Chong’s a pair of slippers, a silk kimono, a quarter pint of whiskey and a cigar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It is Ludwig van Beethoven’s turn to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The servants’ quarters lay behind the house and some distance away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was dying, wracked with her irruptions, in the slave quarters of that house in Canaan, this libation sat by her, untouched. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A quarter, three dimes, a nickel, and two pennies. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d say it’s about a quarter men in the Colonies, too. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please put some salt in a bag. A quarter of that packet.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I heard them, too, from a quarter mile away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Good morning, honey,” Mom says, and tells me breakfast is a quarter of a watermelon that’s been sitting in a corner of our refrigerator for a week. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z About a quarter of a mile in front of the gate, the car slowed to a stop and Winnie and I got out and began to walk toward the prison gate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other reason is that even fifty years after the publication of the Fabrica, there was still strong opposition in some quarters to attempts to revise Galen’s teaching. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Richard had kindly offered to let them sleep in the servants’ quarters off the kitchen, but Mama still refused, which was a relief to Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Weary kicked and shoved Billy for a quarter of a mile. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth floats in space; one quarter of the sphere is habitable, but half of it is covered by water, and the remaining quarter represents terra or aqua incognita. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The rest of the town looked like servants’ quarters surrounding the “big house.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He had once bought a girlie magazine, paying for it with trembling fingers—a dollar and a quarter, his finances shot down in flames until his next allowance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The gym was at the other end of the school, a quarter of a mile away at least, separated from us by a field of ice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of us hadn’t talked about what happened since the arrest, afraid to say a word in case someone overheard us, but I walked into the servants’ quarters. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Kobe or LeBron, ten seconds left, fourth quarter, game seven of the finals. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z In the quarter, at night, when they talked of Denmark they said he had made life harder for the rest of them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a quarter mile away, across a stretch of yellow, waist- high grass, was a straight line of trees—an ancient raised causeway, Erickson said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “In all dis weather, Tea Cake? Ah don’t b’lieve Ah could make it out de quarters.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I grimace and scurry back to my quarters, waiting for someone to come investigate the noise. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her dad unfolded the section he was reading and then refolded it in quarters so he could read a different part of the page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For the first time all year, we were trailing at the end of the first quarter. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I find a quarter in my backpack and drop it into her open case. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z And with twenty quarters, I could probably play Street Fighter for twenty hours. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We went out a quarter of a mile more, until we could just about see Route 586, when Monaco halted us and pointed toward the ridge line. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was always fun to watch Trip work, most of my attention was on a wagon that had rolled into the other end of town about a quarter hour ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Livingston and Henderson rewired the switch and trained the deuteron beam on a carbon target for a quarter of an hour. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I love this game like the winter loves snow even though I spent the final quarter in foul trouble on the bench. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z The next school day, I met up with Lula at the main road as usual, and we walked the last quarter mile to school together, chatting about nothing in particular. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They were filled with storage space—living quarters were almost an afterthought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was well to have a comfort in store on Harriet’s behalf, though it might be wise to let the fancy touch it seldom; for evil in that quarter was at hand. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “I hope not that.—It is not likely. No, Mr. Knightley, do not foretell vexation from that quarter.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z My quarters were uncomfortable, certainly, they were foully dirty and bitterly cold; but it never occurred to me that they were actually unsafe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I have forty-six quarters in my State Quarters Map now because Virginia is coming out to cut the oak tree. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z To get off the Hill, three or four people would pitch in to pay someone a quarter to drive them to and from work. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Someone very rich must have tossed in this quarter,” Jamie whispered. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The line at the well stretched back a quarter mile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I only collected about a quarter of what you two did.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The train was delayed a quarter of an hour. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the quarter, the name of the man who was involved was never spoken aloud. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Downstairs, the chimney clock chimed the quarter hours—and I heard a lot of them —until once I woke and the dent was gone and I jerked up and looked across the room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z At the first alarms, civilian volunteers joined the patrollers to quell the disturbance, invading the quarters and putting freemen’s homes to the torch. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At first he was pleased by what he saw: The Washingtons, extremely distressed, had raised an outcry about their lost son, seeking help from all quarters. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise, the sounds from the quarter would lose order and rhythm and become wails. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would you listen to that crowd, Reggie? They have really come alive in this last quarter!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He was whispering, but his voice sounded loud in the confined quarters. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When allowance day came, I found one dollar in quarters on my dresser next to my talcum powder. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z One in four working Americans—ten million people—had no job and no prospects of finding one, and only a quarter of them were receiving any kind of relief. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “So, Lolly, you have almost a quarter of a million followers online now,” Connie the reporter announced. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I jump in, slap the horse’s front quarters and jump back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z These vast architectural complexes included not only an inner shrine but workshops, storehouses, and residential quarters. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z It was the beginning of the fourth quarter, Carter Prep 54, Granger 38. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Once we crossed the cement bridge, which went over a dry river bed for a quarter of a mile, I stretched my neck and tried to pinpoint the location of Bonetti Ranch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Shin arrived at night near the train station in Hamhung, a coastal city of about three quarters of a million people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But that would benefit only me, which wasn't fair, since Jennifer was putting in a quarter, too. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z This white family also had a black maid who lived in the servants’ quarters in the backyard, and I’d play with her son whenever we stayed there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His hand is still on the upper quarter of my thigh and I find myself wondering again if he was like this with his fiancee, Patricia. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “We lost six men to troll attacks last quarter. Six men. That was belowground, in familiar territory.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The CSS Birmingham captains quarters were about the size of a walk-in closet, but still much bigger than any other room on board. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Some of the men looked for any chance to leave their close quarters, in spite of the bitter cold. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “It chimes every quarter hour. It’s also how the alarm protocols are sounded.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then we dug our living quarters under the rosebush, and the entrance you came in. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Nigel had a cabin away from the quarter, not far from the cookhouse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Which Bran didn't see, since he was already heading back to his quarters. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let thee run off to thy quarters, and stop confusing they fowls.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z You can play a quarter a day or a dollar, or more; any amount you choose. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In his pocket he found a nickel and a dime, all that was left of his weekly allowance, which was a quarter. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A heap of tiny pale green clams no larger than quarters soak in the deep porcelain sink. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I guarantee you we won’t move from these quarters I am about to show you,” Bull said proudly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Louie had won by more than a quarter of a mile. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I told him to follow me and began to run through a series of front yards to a dark, empty field about a quarter mile from where we started. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the quarter the slaves came to look at her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The carts rumbled through the streets, and now they came into the quarter of the Jews. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z From the starboard chains Kedzie yelled, “And a quarter less four!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The sim was only a quarter of the way up the sky when she saw her first man die. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But leaving the bench in the first quarter is unheard of. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And he kept out of sight behind the inkwell as he watched her open her mail box, which was about a quarter of an inch wide, and pull out her letters. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z But with luck, in the middle of the crowd, it would be safe to talk for a quarter of an hour and arrange another meeting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "Four dollars and forty-two cents. Fourteen quarters, five dimes, three nickels, and twenty-seven pennies." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit mowed his stablemate down with incredible speed, running the first eighth in 11 seconds, a quarter in 23, and three eighths in 36. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Beck and I got to his quarters, we waited for the ship to re- pressurize. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Milky Way rotates once every quarter billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught Byron using mine once to shine up some quarters and another time to brush Blackie’s teeth. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest Lawrence was being mentioned in quarters and in contexts that only a year or two earlier would have been unimaginable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His master indeed forbade him from leaving his quarters on Sunday nights, for fear that in preaching of equality before the Lord on High, Isaac might incite riot on Earth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He tinkered with his draft for a further quarter of an hour, then threaded in new sheets and typed up a fair copy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Early in the fourth quarter he scored another touchdown to make it 49-14. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I held it tightly as I pulled myself up, and I took a quarter from the change dispenser on my belt. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z "Don't forget his living quarters," the tall man said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He also couldn't see the German submarine a quarter of a mile away from the shoreline. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Miller did a little skip to get out of the way of his quarter, which landed under a red leather booth against a wall. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at a single paragraph for a quarter of an hour but can’t absorb it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The major spoke grudgingly to the orderly who ducked back into the hole again and came out with a quarter of a white cheese. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “If we must. We’ll cut each man’s portion by a quarter.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After a third quarter in 25%, Pollard reached back and delivered a crack with the whip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was very crowded here in the sleeping quarters, and you couldn’t see much because the aisles—the space between each set of bunks—was maybe two feet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She had placed coconut shell quarters over her eyes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “And this new school happens to cost about a quarter of my yearly salary.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z To the Inka, the quarters echoed the heavenly order. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At quarter to five, a slow splashing makes me look up. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his left hand on the imaginary quarter. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He saw the great dome of the main observatory, a smaller one a little way off, and between them a group of administration buildings and domestic quarters. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Tempers began to wear thin in the close quarters. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She reached into her man’s pants and poured a lot of nickels, dimes, pennies, and some quarters into my hands. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran to the servants’ quarters and up to her room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it vanished, and a message flashed on my display informing me that the quarter had automatically been added to my inventory. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A human noisemaker flooding the woods with laughter and scaring away all fish within a quarter of a mile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Returning a pair of gloves to the store when they gave her two pair instead of the one pair she paid for; giving quarters she finds on the seat to conductors on the trolley. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked over behind the candy counter and shook out one of the quarter sacks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t enough to buy even a quarter of the food that seven people needed. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z He went along the sidewalk with his head down, fingering the quarter in his pocket. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Once I’d placed the quarter in my inventory, I hadn’t been able to remove it, so I’d never been able to have any divination or identification spells cast on it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The laboratory was just an old shed that had once been part of the slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He could identify police outboards at a distance of a quarter mile. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z One round dollar, two quarters, two dimes, and three pennies. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He picked out a bicentennial quarter and handed it to Rufus. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Except it’s cold, they been coming in since dawn. It’s quarter to. You get along and you won’t miss nothing except it’s cold.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “And that would mean ...” Dionysus inserted another quarter. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And for pickers, ten cents a day for the women and a case quarter for the men. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were thousands of British troops quartered in New York, and British sailors, too, besides the regular population of 25,000. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So he brought pen and ink and paper from his quarters, and once again she said the words, those she could recall. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It would cost you a whole quarter of a American dollar to go in the tent and see the conjurer do this! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Watch Magic Jackson make this quarter appear from behind your ear! Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I have a quarter of an inch to go. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Their job was to get the living quarters ready, and to make sure the pilots could land when they arrived in their Yaks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z With quarters, nickels, and dimes jostling in my pocket, I stepped off the train and into the California sunshine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It certainly comes out, living in such close quarters with people, which ones are only looking out for themselves and which ones are thinking about the whole group. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie squeals, plucking the quarter from the lady’s hand and putting it into the slot. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z We know how they are, the first quarter you start hittin ’em a couple of times, get a couple of sticks on ’em, they want to quit.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay on her flat pallet in the servants’ quarters, exiled from her bedchamber, where several of the women of quality were sleeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They traveled quickly, for it seemed to be scarcely a quarter of an hour before the carriage pulled to a stop and the footman leapt off his perch to open the door for her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They little noted in the confusion when he remained upon the island, nor when he stole down into the marsh and followed the Royal Ethiopians, hands up and whispering for quarter. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The collection of centennial quarters Toby’s mom had given him before she split. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Whichever quarter knocks the other quarter over, or lasts the longest, wins. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I know who you are, Mr. Potter, but even you must understand that it’s against school covenant for parents or professors to enter a House quarters without express permission from . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Under the window, and occupying nearly a quarter of the room, was an enormous bed with the mattress still on it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My contact inside referred me to another person in the quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then whoops and shouts pealed from every quarter, and howls and even a trombone blasting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I drank, and so did Lara, and then Alaska put her head back and turned the bottle upside down, quickly downing the last quarter of the bottle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He folded this in quarters, wrote “Deliver to Loris Harrow” in big letters on the outside, and pinned it to the kiosk. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s a clear hierarchy: the closer to the back, the more impressive the quarters. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z My dance ended as the clock struck the quarter before ten. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Our major project this quarter is an interactive learning initiative. Over the next nine weeks you will become an expert on an individual from history, learning enough to become that person and assume their identity.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Dad and Luke were on the mountain, in the junkyard above the upper pasture, a quarter mile from the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was a quarter mile away, but I swear I could see him smile. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z What I find is porridge and kasha for a quarter of our money. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Only about three quarters of the bunks were full. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Thomas had eaten and hurried away to his quarters to resume work. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a horse—but it has no hind quarters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The guards are shouting to everyone to report to their quarters. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He lives way on down by the airplane field in a shack by himself whenever he comes over here, and Mama says that’s close enough quarters for him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth Drinker heard more stories of friends who had died, and lamented: “Desolution, Cruelty and Distress have of late resounded in our ears from many quarters.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Anyway, Rabscuttle got separated from the others, and after wandering about for some time, he strayed into the guards’ quarters outside King Darzin’s city; and they caught him and took him up to the King. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She held out a quarter of a pink message slip and looked at me with a face that said “I hope you wont be coming around here looking for another handout anytime soon.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Their friendship grew At university when Emenike lived with him in the boys’ quarters of his mother’s house, people had sometimes mistaken him for a relative. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The lighthouse was only a quarter of an hour’s flight from the Charing-T Tower; but the hills of Malpais were hardly more deserted than this Surrey heath. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Toward the last quarter of the book, she did find a face she recognized. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The boats were approaching the five-hundred-meter mark now, a quarter of the way down the racecourse, with Switzerland, Britain, and Germany essentially tied for the lead, the U.S. and the Italian shells behind them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So a dotted half note, for example, would last as long as a half note plus a quarter note, or three quarters of a whole note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When the boy carried the lantern down to the quarter, his masters following, violence was assured. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A quarter moon lay low in the west, not giving enough light to tempt anyone to stay up late. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But as it was a personal choice between learning cudgel and wrestling from Constance or quarter staff from Matthias, to a mouse they had opted for the latter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “We’ll both put in a quarter, and then we can wish for something together,” I said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Notice that the syncopated notes in the melody come on the second and fourth quarters of the beat, essentially alternating with the strong eighth-note pattern laid down in the accompaniment. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The leader, not knowing from what quarter this deadly attack was coming, turned upon Euryalus shouting, “You shall pay for this!” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They continued past the kitchen quarters, which were a mess of shouting, clouds of flour, and surging fires. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Unlike the area where I’m quartered, there seems to be no one around to ask. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There must have been a cake, with candles and wishes and a quarter and a dime wrapped in wax paper hidden between the layers for someone to chip a tooth on, and presents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Slapped over and over again with the stick, Seabiscuit blew Faust’s doors off, covering a quarter mile in an impossible 22% seconds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter of pork or a rump of beef would do. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “The dining car wiped me out. I fished out my last bit of change and passed Grover a quarter, which left me two nickels and one drachma from Medusa’s place. “ The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z "It was really about a quarter of an hour," Mike objected. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He parked his car next to Aunty Ifeoma’s station wagon and took out a can of petrol and a garden hose that had been cut to a quarter of its length. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z My hands were shaking, and the quarters squeezed in my fist were wet with sweat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I perked up, thinking that she had come alone, but then I saw her date enter behind her with his two quarters in his hand. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He rented a storefront on Sheriff Street, with living quarters in the back. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Their lives had been exceedingly difficult and their relationship with the government was strained: nearly a quarter of the men and thirty-seven percent of the women said family members had died of hunger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Most importantly, the conversation at Jefferson’s quarters was merely one part of an ongoing and larger conversation in which the very survival and subsequent shape of the American republic seemed at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I’ve already seen the movie—it’s an anthology, a little collection of vignettes about life in Paris, each taking place in a different quarter of the city. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “I got a quarter,” the thin white lips sneered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That Sunday after the maids went off to early mass, my mother inspected their quarters while my father kept watch by a window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The third quarter ended with Permian still ahead by two points. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He got into the game in the second quarter and gained four yards on his first carry of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a sharp contrast that, by the end of the 1930s, somewhere between a quarter and a third of all pilots in the Soviet Union were women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It turned out we’d come in through the jailer’s living quarters. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had forgotten to buy a sandwich with the quarter his mother had given him, and he had not eaten since morning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And all for twenty-five cents, the quarter part of a dollar . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He built quarters within the park where they received three large meals a day and slept in clean beds and well-heated rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Kira knew that “the wing” was where her own quarters were. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I take out my plastic cash bag and pay him one dollar and four quarters. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She imagined him at his desk in his boys’ quarters, near his small humming refrigerator, writing in that calm manner of his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The team was tired, the going slow, and a quarter of a mile was covered in only something less than an eternity. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Since beats normally get divided into halves and quarters, this is the easiest way for composers to write beats that are divided into thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He then continued on to the Hall of Justice on Lombard Street and found himself a quarter of an hour late to work. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The last time he looked at the clock it was quarter to four, and the faintest tinge of pink was brushing the window. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She came at last to a confluence of shabby streets which she assumed from the detached quarter of her map was Stockwell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I wish I had a quarter and I wish I had a dime. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Pong nodded to the building that used to be the prison guards' quarters. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It also contained the old man’s simple living quarters: a cot, a lamp, a work table, a folding chair, a bucket for carrying water, a plate, pots, pans, and so on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Growing frantic, he plunked quarters into a phone booth in the lobby, called Eric again, then Sherry. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine him laughing, pressing quarters into our palms, pulling presents for us from his bag, thick gold bracelet flashing at his wrist. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “But a quarter can’t pay you for what he did to you,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat in my quarter of the car and smoked, wondering why the old woman at Coosa Liquors didn’t just pull that one hair out of her mole. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I would order him to start the car and then tip him a quarter or even a dollar from Dad’s pocket before driving on. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Westing Paper Products had jumped four and a quarter, no, four and a half points. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z We were first introduced to rap music during one of our visits to Mobimbi, a quarter where the foreigners who worked for the same American company as my father lived. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She lived by herself in the old slave quarters out past Granddaddy’s laboratory, and though it had once housed a dozen or so slaves, it was the perfect size for one person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When I was in third grade, I noticed I had two red spots about the size of a quarter, one on the left side of my stomach and another on the back of my scalp. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She cut off the crusts, and then cut them into quarters. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I would often wander away from the children’s games, tiptoe through the women’s quarters, and join the men. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The main cause for skepticism was his notorious claim that halfway down the river the Spaniards were attacked by tall, topless women who fought without quarter and lived without men. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rumor was the pay was ten cents for young women, a quarter for men. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The rhododendron thicket was about twenty feet back from the Burroughs’s lane and about a quarter of an acre big. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The boys from Berkeley executed a tremendous surge, suddenly blowing past both Navy and Penn, seizing the lead and winning by a quarter of a boat length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My quarters are larger than our entire house back home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He had hung a dozen or so kerosene lamps from the ceiling at various heights around the old slave quarters, and you had to watch your head. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I took two quarters out of my pocket and laid them on the deli counter. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Crowd, heat, bad quarters, bad fare, bad smells, mosquitoes, and a plague of flies transcending everything within my experience. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Before they left, they went to Nana’s room in the servants’ quarters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nice crib,” said Big Tony, looking around the cozy dog quarters. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I wandered aimlessly for perhaps a quarter hour, exploring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z AA 23:234: “For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z By the end of the 1800s, only a quarter of the indentures sailed back to India after their five years were over. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was as though by keeping this room impersonal, by not importing her intimate belongings but leaving them mingled with those of her husband, she lessened the offense of not sharing his quarters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But Quirin and Heinck were assigned to the crew's quarters, where they had to wait until a bed was available before they could lie down to sleep. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “This is what happened. We—that’s to say, I mean, mainly it was me—we thought we’d take Boots for a bit of a walk around the servants’ quarters.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z At least a quarter of Garland was held together with the stuff. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Only thing you know is every Saturday, starting now, you got two more quarters to put in your sugar bowl.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After about a quarter of an hour Squealer appeared, full of sympathy and concern. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Once the shadow reduces to a quarter crescent, it hangs there, motionless. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z After a quiet quarter of an hour, the old man turned halfway around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grandma always was threatening to skin someone alive, or draw and quarter him, or scalp him like a red Indian, or spank him till his bottom blistered. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z My gaze shot to the quarter sitting on the edge of the marquee brace. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Why had he picked that way to earn a quarter? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The compound was barely a quarter of the size of our backyard in Enugu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But as I approached, a tall thin shadow of a white man came toward me from the direction of the quarter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Mole's Town was bigger than it seemed, but three quarters of it was under the ground, in deep warm cellars connected by a maze of tunnels. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For example, if "a quarter note gets a beat," then playing many quarter notes in a row would mean playing a new note on every beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The measure had restored a degree of peace to King's Landing and quartered the number of corpses found in the alleys of a morning, yet Varys said the people cursed him for it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were barely twenty feet from the bank at that point, and there was more than three quarters of the way to go. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It certainly does,” the dog replied, sniffing around to see what their new quarters were like. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The queen’s words were courteous enough, though her tone said, It is no more than your duty, and you had best hope these quarters please me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nico pointed towards Long Island Sound, where the lights of a large yacht gleamed a quarter of a mile offshore. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Now we will have to carry away his sea-changed parts rich and strange to our different quarters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The back corridor, which serves as a sort of backbone to the staff's quarters of Darlington Hall, was always a rather cheerless affair due to the lack of daylight penetrating its considerable length. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Their boys were out in front by a quarter of a length and bearing down on the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But it was given only a quarter second. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked with him to the male servants' quarters at the rear of the house, where Colin’s small, square room was found. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now why don’t we ask the guards to take me back to my quarters so I can build another hundred card houses?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She knew that her brothers and sisters, her father and mother, and all the other people who lived in the quarter, men, women and children, were slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I took my dimes and quarters and fed them into the slot, each coin clinking down one after the other. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Zeitoun and James drove from job to job, a quarter ton of plywood in the back of the truck, doing what they could before the winds came. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I’d had no way of ascertaining the quarter’s true purpose or powers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules, Miss New Hampshire. They exist for a reason. For taking the Lord’s name in vain, you owe me another quarter. You also spoke without the baton. Latrine duty for you, too.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Just watch me get a quarter from the first white man I see,” he told me as I stood in the elevator that morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That our mouths water in the hot sun as we hand him our quarters then wait patiently as he pours the syrup over the ice, hands it to us in paper cones. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z His bedchamber was a small cell off the queen’s apartments, originally slave quarters; his furnishings consisted of a bed, a chamber pot, a wardrobe for his clothing, even a chair should he want to sit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They finished the deal with dignity and Lee Chong threw in a quarter pint of Old Tennis Shoes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what, she’d always let me watch the fourth quarter of playoff games, even if they went really late. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z And I had no trouble walking or seeing my hand put quarters into the slot on the bus. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in tow, the tug nudging along under her quarter, trailing smoke, but the ship herself was like she was moving without visible means. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As befit his rank and station, Quentyn Martell had been given quarters within the Great Pyramid, two levels down—a handsome suite of rooms with its own privy and walled terrace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But aside from the latter privilege, and a garrison of Macedonian soldiers quartered in the city Cyrene was left pretty much to rule herself. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z A week ago I decided I didn’t like this spot and have been on the lookout for more comfortable bathing quarters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But I’m not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to control my curiosity until quarter to seven. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z By playing up their strangeness, the way a slave simpered and acted childlike to escape a beating, they evaded the entanglements of the quarter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Why don’t they bypass you and buy the eggs directly from you in Malta at four and a quarter cents apiece ?” “Because I wouldn’t sell it to them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Malcolm had never seen a baby at close quarters, and he was struck at once by how real she seemed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He skirted the camp, moving like a shadow through the trees on the hill behind, until he came out upon the lake’s shore a quarter of a mile upwind of the camp. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If you missed the test, failed the test, weren’t where you said you would be on your schedule, or failed to submit your whereabouts for the quarter, that would count as a failed test. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was only about a quarter to nine when we got back to the dorm. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Late in the fourth quarter, on a third-and-ten from our own eleven yard line, we sprang a double reverse, and I took it all the way for an eighty-nine-yarder. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z A paper cup drops into place, the drink pours out and stops a quarter of an inch from the brim—a cold, refreshing drink guaranteed synthetic. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It gives great pleasure to the Editor to hear, from every quarter of our City, that universal health prevails in a degree equal to any former period. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “About a buck if you buy one new—quarter at a wrecker’s.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Every quarter of an hour the prevailing perfume of the room was automatically changed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the road for perhaps a quarter of a mile she had been passing and admiring a row of splendid tended oleanders, blooming pink and white in a steady row. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally, around three in the morning, Clarence and his twin brother, Clement, came to escort the kids to their sleeping quarters. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Edwin motioned toward the head of the bay, a quarter mile away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In order to keep the meter going steadily, every measure must have a combination of notes and rests that is equivalent to four quarter notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He shakes his head, makes himself some tea, and cuts up a pear in precise quarters before shuffling into the family room. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Figure 1.43: In any particular section of a piece of music, a half note is always twice as long as a quarter note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z About a quarter of her class attended school. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He tells me stories about how his dad would hide treasure around the apartment—how the treasure was always a jar of quarters they used for laundry. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “He had the former servants’ quarters renovated to keep as his private rooms because he enjoys the view. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Alvarez wondered what it was about a thin lamina of clay, barely a quarter of an inch thick, that could account for such a dramatic moment in Earth’s history. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was three quarters of an inch long and narrowed to a point. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The bad coffee was dumped on Ball’s Wharf, where it putrefied in the sun and sent out a powerful odor that could be smelled over a quarter mile away. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z François called to him a quarter of a mile away and he doubled back, still one leap ahead, gasping painfully for air and putting all his faith in that François would save him. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z It took up at least a quarter of the valley, with trees so tall and thick, you could imagine nobody had been in there since the Native Americans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if they were going to kill him, and his hand trembled, just a little, and one of the quarters dropped from his fingertip onto the stained green baize of the card table. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Now they were only about a quarter of a block away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheerleaders ran through all their routines before the first quarter was over. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Though Seabiscuit had won the race easily, running the final quarter in a blazing twenty-four seconds flat and obliterating the track record by \\% seconds, he had dragged early in the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Celebrating meant drinking, which meant that once it got dark, some men might decide to take a little tour through the Jewish quarter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I made it nearly a quarter mile before the darkness and my dazzled vision betrayed me and I ran headlong into a horse tether, crumpling to the ground in a painful heap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This information ended the whispered, panicky conversations in the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter of a mile beyond the woods stretch, the road led past the Burdow place. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Soft, salty bread and white cheese, slices of spiced meat, and quarters of some big, globed fruit that tasted of sugared rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The other two patrol girls, whom I don't know, are grappling with the remaining two freshies in close quarters, shoving them and swinging their scythes ineffectively. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was born in the poorest quarters of the city, because of the harsh winter, the malnutrition, and the dirty water, and it joined forces with the unemployment and spread in every direction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like sailors quartered on a battleship, they found privacy, space, and quiet hard to come by. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But now I knew what the quarter was—a single-use artifact that gave my avatar an extra life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Over three quarters of a century ago, Charles Darwin published a book titled The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The second quarter started, and Benji returned with ice cream and candy bars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They went through a toll booth where Stewart paid a quarter, and then after a while saw signs saying: BRIDGEPORT. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Ghosts wandered in the quarter, whispered in the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Step by step it has been going on for a quarter of a century, drawing on even earlier work for some of its foundation stones. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Joe had been at the Three Jolly Bargemen, smoking his pipe, from a quarter after eight o’clock to a quarter before ten. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z And women, he said, should stay at home in purdah quarters at all times: They should go out only in emergencies and only wearing a burqa and only with a male relative. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Discovering, while scuffling with an enemy at a circus, that adults would give quarters to fighting kids to pacify them, Louie declared a truce with the enemy and they cruised around staging brawls before strangers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In the heart of Tokyo is the secure neighborhood of Mejiro, where a gated estate of luxury quarters house Warcross teams for the duration of the tournament. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hadn’t flown a kite in a quarter of a century, but suddenly I was twelve again and all the old instincts came rushing back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sun was quarter high when they were ready. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The darkness in the slaves’ quarters was cut only by rushlights. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I accompanied him to the servants’ quarters, where he squatted by our pallets and asked each of us to describe any symptoms we might feel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This was the last big grade for this quarter. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We headed over to the Country Store and, like magicians, turned quarters and dimes into gelatin-based sweets. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z At the end of the passageway, before an enormous mural of Saint George and the Dragon over the staircase landing, he folded the ship’s newspaper into quarters and put it into his left hip pocket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He’s gonna drop a quarter, then tell you to bend over and pick it up.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They simply ran out of money and couldn’t make the jump to the next town, never mind back to winter quarters. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I cant do nothing with him. I just come over here looking for a quarter I lost so I can go to the show tonight. Look like now I aint going to get to go.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Modest white outside walls crowned with slanting tile decorations gave no hint of the elaborate courtyards and inner living quarters that were hidden like pearls in their oyster shells. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The wholesale value of these products was well over a quarter of a billion dollars. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sun Valley’s lead had increased to nineteen points midway through the second quarter. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The door of the slave quarters was slightly ajar, but Ignatius threw himself against it anyway, shattering several panes of glass. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The school had been little more than slave quarters from which he was sent out as a rock picker, weed puller, and dam laborer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Coming from the opposite direction, from the slave quarters, the sharp wailing cry of a newborn could be heard. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother was half Irish so that makes me half, quarter? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Opinion polls showed that the Congress was far and away the most popular political organization among Africans even though it had been banned for a quarter of a century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When we couldn’t and I told Mrs. Ellis, my fourth- grade teacher, that I had forgotten my quarter, she said her records indicated that someone had already paid for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Pong looked in the direction of his living quarters at the back of the temple, near the forest edge. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “You’re all wrong. The best play of the game was clearly the fumble on that third down in the first quarter and that’s because...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He was no more than a quarter of a mile from the road, he figured; it only seemed more. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Male citizens of age, who were entitled and expected to vote in the general assembly, made up no more than a quarter of the total adult population. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z If only he could get the mouse at close quarters and stop him from using the sword, Cluny thought, then he could win with his superior strength. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We were so poor my mother took three quarters of my paycheck every week to supplement the family income. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Occasionally I went to house-rent parties, parties given by working-class families to raise money to pay the landlord, the admission to which was a quarter or a half dollar. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then de big house and de quarters got sober and silent. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z They threw away bottles that still had a good quarter inch at the bottom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At night, in the quarter, she described these dreams or visions, as she called them, to the other slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The air reeks something horrible, a combination of carrion, rotting eggs, and Cadets’ quarters in high summer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They kept going farther and farther away from the quarter on the plantation, where she had been bom and brought up. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved rapidly through the house, even showing the servants’ quarters and storage closets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All I had was three singles and five quarters and a nickel left--boy, I spent a fortune since I left Pencey. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Yes, Peeves, you fool, Peeves! Haven’t you been complaining about him for a quarter of a century? Go and fetch him, at once!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Last year it was observed that young women living at close quarters in dormitories tended to undergo spontaneous synchronization of their menstrual cycles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hot lunch at school cost a quarter, and we could usually afford that. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It stood better than a quarter of a mile off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z By quarter to four, it’s time to go and pick up Milla. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z There were crescents and quarters, gibbous and full, and they weren’t charms, they were moons—real miniature moons, cratered and luminous, as though lit by the rays of some distant star. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s bigger than my quarters, though just as spare. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z During the second, a Level Two drill meant for minor crises—such as a temporary quarantine while citizens were tested for contagion during a flu outbreak—we were supposed to return to our living quarters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The show is about a quarter of the way through when she walks into the menagerie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We’re up by forty at the end of the third quarter, and so Coach puts in the second squad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Half of something, a quarter of something else, brown skin and black hair like his dead mother, but with weird pale blue eyes like his father. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I listened to the easy and usually obscene give-and- take between Joe and men of the quarter who passed the sidewalk. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Thick, jagged greenery only covered the top quarter of the trees. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “I needed a quarter and I got it,” he said soberly, proudly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He had gone up to the Kleins’ living quarters on the second floor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He had tom down the old slave quarters on his property. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z But then she thought about what he said, and she tried something new: She bought a small amount of chicken—a quarter pound—and mixed it with beans and cabbage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We parked behind the Carter Hotel, paid a quarter to the attendant, and walked down the hill toward Main Street. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The quarter was gone; besides, I had forgotten the number. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But War Relic had been an angel for exactly one and three quarter races, and he was pushing his limits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Low-ranked wrestlers must tend to their superiors, preparing their meals, cleaning their quarters, and even soaping up their hardest-to-reach body parts. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Ben and Alex got home first, and Will rode the last quarter mile by himself. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She did not gown herself as a lady, but chose a knight's finery instead, a velvet doublet quartered rose-and-azure, breeches and boots and a fine-tooled swordbelt, her new rainbow cloak flowing down her back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Life has the value of a quarter now—not even that! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course they did not even remotely suspect that the missile, when it was fired, the one that would annihilate the family’s Good Name forever, would come from a completely unexpected quarter. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Every dawn he left his quarters and inspected the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That night, in the slave cabins in the quarter, they talked about Harriet. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because the two post- Games interviews with Caesar Flickerman were shot in President Snow’s personal quarters. Plutarch thinks Peeta may be of some use as a guide in a location we have little knowledge of.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A quarter of an hour later, it began to slow down even more. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the afternoon game, but it was already in the second quarter. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the quarter, at night, some of the slaves gathered together in the cabin that belonged to Ben, her father, and talked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter of the way down the course, Bobby Moch found himself creeping up on California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like all the other babies in the quarter, Harriet Ross cut her first teeth on a piece of pork rind. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Arable gave Fern two quarters and two dimes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Special efforts were made to reach out to black laborers, who were now a quarter of the Yard’s work force and without whom the union was going nowhere. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Unless you plan on telling her, which I don’t suggest. Come on, I’ll take you back to your quarters.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He tucked it into his shirt pocket and sent pennies, nickels, and dimes skidding across the floor as he concentrated on quarters. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “They’ll pump water over the trees all night long, probably a quarter of the grove at a time.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yeah! This is a quarter of the way there.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Henry’s trousers were spattered with drops the size of quarters, too red to be blood, as if he’d had a paintbrush slung at him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At quarter past twelve, the door of the construction trailer swung open. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Fie was assigned quarters on my old floor, but he has so many mental relapses, he still basically lives in the hospital. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z After the tenth night, the journey that usually only took three and a half days was less than a quarter done. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z By the start of the fourth quarter we were ahead, 78 to 29. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The same length may be written as a half note and a quarter note tied together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I don’t refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful continue to scrub floors and drop their dimes and quarters and dollars into the plate. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I hope Andy is able to get himself together and pass English this quarter. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I aint studying no quarter. I got my own business to tend to.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Late that night, after Ulbrickson had finally retired to his quarters, the boys stole out of the hotel singly or in pairs and walked along the shore of Lake Carnegie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Actually, could I just get a leg quarter, please?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I guess I have to put it together myself so quarter-cut oak is oak you cut with a quarter. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z With a hundred meters left, they widened the lead to a quarter of a length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was about a quarter mile square, with earthen ramparts on all four sides, the tops lined with sharpened spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Kayode was throwing a hasty party in their guest quarters while his parents were away in London. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They passed down a number of door-lined corridors, which must be the Recruiter quarters and Executive suites. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Some required only speed: How many quarters in twenty dollars? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z With the score 35-0 by the fourth quarter, the Midland High Bulldogs, sufficiently humbled, might have expected a little letup from Permian, but there was none. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A watch in his pyjama pocket was found to be badly dented and it had stopped at a quarter past one. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It was far more orderly than the sprawling encampment on the Mander, though only a quarter as large. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And then, suddenly, after a quarter of an hour’s complete immobility, his eyebrows began to move slowly up his forehead. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember today’s checkout girl giving Uhmma’s chapped red hands a long look as Uhmma counted out one quarter, two dimes, five nickels, and thirty pennies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I have no choice but to take the quarter from my pocket and feed it to the machine. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z When I looked at her she said, “I don’t have another quarter.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Preacher slapped two whole American quarters on a table and told the white woman sitting there, “Me and my boy want to see the mesmerist.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The fourth harmonic has a quarter the wavelength and four times the frequency of the first, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z "These are your chambers"—Madam Claire motions—"and your imperial servant will be in nearby quarters." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “There are times when married life is not what I expected” Lady Constance finally remarked, after three quarters of an hour had passed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She handed me my schedule, still folded in crisp quarters. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally, a quarter of a mile from the finish, California began its sprint, charging up from behind, one more time, to nose out ahead of Bolles’s boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Fifteen men in harness dragged one boat at a time across the wet snow and over the ice, stopping every quarter mile to rest, before going back to haul the second boat forward. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Shadow took a quarter from his pocket, tails up. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But the string is also vibrating in halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, and so on, producing harmonics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The difference between them is less than a quarter of a semitone. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Baba loosened his tie and gave the old man a handful of quarters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As they shed their wet coats and tromped through the building, they marveled at the luxuries the new quarters afforded. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For variety I ate a quarter of the nuts and roots raw. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Out back, in the walkway between the house proper and the servants’ quarters, Chucha is putting out her bedding to sun on the line. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z They agree to stand guard for a quarter of an hour or thereabouts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,” Lynn says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The living quarters and dining rooms of the tenured scholars would have been in the very same building, affording easy access to the collections. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Well, she says, I don’t know exactly what quarter-cut oak is but I do know this much: it is not wood cut from an oak tree with a quarter. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched the man push her quarter loaf into a paper bag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As they neared Hagrid’s cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the mystery of the Beauxbatons’ sleeping quarters was solved. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I went to the cafeteria, looked around to see if Maurice was there, saw he wasn’t, and went and dropped a quarter in the machine. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z With so many people in such close quarters, when one person took sick, the rest fell like dominoes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Can’t go no more, Mister White Man, unless I get my quarter,” he said in a tone that sounded like crying. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After the bicycle, my mom hired contractors she knew through the real-estate business to build her a separate house in the backyard, like a little servants’ quarters, and she moved in there with Isaac. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But again, the tortoise has moved ahead, this time by a quarter foot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Miller used a quarter that he had gotten from a player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He actually got a C in theater one quarter because he didn’t do his Shakespeare monologue. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Esteban was as madly in love as an adolescent, despite the fact that the movement of the ship made Clara uncontrollably ill and the tight quarters gave her asthma. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Parts of the front were still unpainted, and so were the sides, but I had used less than a quarter of the paint. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Thumbing a quarter into the slot, he selected three country and western songs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The task took three hours, but my knuckles were bleeding in a quarter of the time. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The quarter was so jubilant over the tiny pleasures they scavenged together on Randall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For a fleeting second he thought of the knife Sirius had bought him for Christmas — locked in his trunk in the castle a quarter of a mile away, no use to him whatsoever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z About three quarters of the food of the chickadee is animal, including all stages of the life cycle of many insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He listened to the mantel clock chime the quarter hours and to the house tightening itself against the cold. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z This meant I had to spend part of each day cleaning up his quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Out of sight of the Big House, but not quite out of hearing, was the “quarter” where the slaves lived. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she put in two more quarters and got chocolate bars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned about three quarters of the way around, and I hurriedly took it from my backpack and put it on the table. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their Frigidaire was always stocked with newly acquired pieces of ham, half roasts and quartered chickens. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “According to the government, there are approximately a quarter of a million children under the age of eighteen, but our estimate is closer to a tenth of that.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z One or two South African gold mines reach to a depth of two miles, but most mines on Earth go no more than about a quarter of a mile beneath the surface. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And sleeping quarters sure have improved—just look at those RVs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z In close quarters, relationships count so heavily that to say something has no relationship in Chinese — mei guanxi — is to mean, often as not, it doesn’t matter. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I returned in a quarter hour, in an everyday gown. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Carol is only ten and three quarters but she’s growing breasts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s not that he cries or gets sentimental, not at all, but he does spend a quarter of an hour—an entire fifteen minutes—rocking from his toes to his heels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There’s no time to show them anything but how to point and pull the trigger, but in close quarters, that might be enough. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z About a quarter of the money went directly for housing, eliminating any chance that it could be paid to a broker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Nationally, Virginia’s white teachers ranked in the bottom quarter in public school salaries, and their black counterparts might earn almost 50 percent less. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A few years later, when I moved into the Mosses’ home, I would be reminded of the cramped quarters and zooey smells I first encountered here. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Gently, he gave the head a quarter turn and then quickly drew his knife across the artery running alongside the bird’s windpipe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Then what? Drawing and quartering? Firing squads? Does the Royal Palace have a view of the gallows?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But there would be no public lavatories in a quarter like this. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I’m sending extra security to the team quarters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A quarter century ago, cancer in children was considered a medical rarity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Camped a quarter mile in from the edge, on a long flat streak of firn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Now we were walking together away from the house and the quarter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Washington settled in at thirty but held its position at a quarter length back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Point to four quarter notes or four icons while the class pats a steady beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The case was dented savagely, and the hands pointed to a quarter past one. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He went back to the office, where the secretary gave him four quarters for the dollar, then went to the pay phone and called X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The gaiety and laughter from the Big House reached all through the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z So the people in the quarter spent days preparing the log. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Cornflower, along with other woodland creatures granted sanctuary, was sleeping in makeshift quarters provided by the good mice of Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I headed for the bus stop a quarter mile up the road. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Your father will be one of the highest ranking officers on this air base. It simply means that we’ll have to wait for quarters to open up to move in.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here; take this quarter and buy you something.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time I subbed in for Drew toward the end of the third quarter, I was ready to rip somebody apart. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z For the next nine years, Desdemona complained of the cramped quarters and of the pain in her legs when she descended the stairs; but every time my father offered to move her downstairs, she refused. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This particularly is what makes it a little funny that Henry’s room—the customary quarters for royal guests—is called the Queen’s Bedroom. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His bald spot, which used to be no bigger than a quarter, is now the size of a baseball. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Green Door recently had been abandoned for larger quarters on nearby Portugal Place. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In these close quarters, I was unable to back up without the risk of ensnaring myself in the ropes or breaking my ankle in one of the gaps between the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Still, we were in tight quarters, with Fang and the fence behind us and the table in front, and every so often the magnets collided. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I put down my coffee and fished in my jacket pocket and found a quarter and some pennies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At a quarter to eleven, the Gryffindor team set off for the locker rooms. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mrs. Olinski hugged her upper arms and wondered if maybe it was nerves and not the quartering wind blowing from the ceiling vents that was causing her shivers. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z As they passed on deck or on their way to their different quarters, Zeitoun and Ahmad shared knowing glances, sheepish smiles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Waves were quartering across the racecourse now, constantly threatening to throw the boats off keel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Only a month before, my ancient half-sister, who was twelve years older than me, had actually had appendicitis, and for several days before her operation I was able to observe her behaviour at close quarters. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of putting the rest in my savings passbook, I gave Vonetta the other two quarters to put away for the concert. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The folks in the quarters and the people in the big houses further around the shore heard the big lake and wondered. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A quarter million dollars of hard-earned money that had been invested in house and home was gone. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But Harley was up again, ordering a round of Coors, feeding quarters into the juke box as he punched the buttons for all the Hank Williams songs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I ran out back, through the courtyard that separated the house from the servants’ quarters, and upstairs to her room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mike fell to his knees and started searching for his own coins just as Kyle shouted, “Got it!” and plucked a 1982 quarter out of the pile. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Before we had gone a quarter of a mile the sweater was wet through and hanging heavily on my arms and shoulders. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Just see how many times you can hit him going a quarter of a mile.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And as I ran onto the court, somebody in the crowd threw a quarter at me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “You sent her to her quarters for the night. I assumed you were done with her.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Mel lost his mother when he was just three and a quarter years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. And they took me out in the third quarter. I was awesome!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “He sort of lost some revenue. The Corporation posted second, third, and fourth quarter losses totaling around forty billion? So, you know, they had to make some sacrifices, let some workers go.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Six thousand men in the City Watch, thanks to Cersei, but only a quarter of them could be relied upon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The very next weekend, she had found the denim bag at a yard sale for a quarter. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z It was only her bellows that could penetrate to their quarters—not her heavy hands. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham’s house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, at age five and three quarters, I was registered for the first grade at Gibbs Elementary School. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was riding Little Warrior, a small but sturdy buckskin quarter horse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I nod, grab a knife and cut an enormous slice, a quarter of the pan practically, and put it on a dinner plate. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “He has special quarters in a different section of the Edifice.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I push the questions out of my head, unlock the door, and enter my quarters. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Reznak, see that the prince and his companions are given quarters suitable to their high birth, and that their wants are attended to.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Three quarters said they woke up before six. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He found two quarters and tossed them into the man’s outstretched hands, swaying above his head, and both the man and the woman dropped to their knees in the sand to find them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I display the quarter once more before gripping it between my fingers like the book said and slapping it into the side of the bottle and through the crack I had created. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He argued with her about it for perhaps a quarter of an hour. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He shrugged the feeling off—what was it his dad said about feelings, something about a quarter and a cup of coffee?—and checked his watch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The crooked collection of mud-brick huts in the beastkeepers’ quarters seemed so much smaller in the daytime. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I watched, horrified, as she tore it into quarters, then eighths. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Most people would use quarters to get soda, but I used my head. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Because all the quarters billeted for majors and above are filled up,” Bull explained. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For a quarter hour I sat on my bed, enjoying the quiet and trying fruitlessly to think of new ways to break the curse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Other times his overnight quarters might be an abandoned car, an empty garage, a basement stairwell. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother made a disapproving tsk sound with her teeth, then quartered a potato. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He, too, winks at me with his one working eye, and decorates the walls of his quarters with what he calls “the telltale visions of a captain triumphant.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Where kids rode their scooters on the sidewalk and sold lousy lemonade for a quarter a cup. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Newton’s law of gravity says that the gravitational attraction of a star is exactly one quarter that of a similar star at half the distance. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton and Madison did meet at Jefferson’s quarters in late June of 1790. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But, Lor’ bless you, in real life a wolf is only a low creature, not half so clever or bold as a good dog; and not half a quarter so much fight in ’im. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “My specialty is in administrative supplies—quills, papyrus, Baridian ink—the Temple of Lkossa alone constitutes a quarter of my business, what with all the books and maps they house there.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But if the city was alive, then he could expect to be drawn and quartered and fed in pieces to the carrion birds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A hundred students left the Arcanum every year, perhaps a quarter of them with their guilders. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Can I please have a quarter pound of Happiness? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She told her of the panic-stricken talk in the quarter, told her that the slaves were afraid that the master, Dr. Thompson, would start selling them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, to tell you the truth, I hardly go into Salisbury myself, so I couldn't really say what it's like at close quarters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There were living quarters so that when they got busy on some crucial test they did not need to drive back to Ithaca. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Washburn is within a quarter mile of the bridge, his force largely intact. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Something flying low was peppering the runway with machine gun tire; even buried mostly underground, even a quarter of a mile away, the shelter’s iron walls shuddered. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She picked a few stray peelings off of her apron and began quartering the potatoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even though Cook had offered many more times for Ophie and Mama to stay in one of the rooms in the empty servants’ quarters, Mama continued to refuse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I pressed my thumb to a plate on the change machine and bought a single quarter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Alex raised his head ten degrees for a quarter second to say yes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z For example, music for walking or marching is in duple meter and uses steady quarter notes, running music contains eighth notes, skipping music uses dotted rhythms, jumping music contains large interval leaps, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He came each evening to her quarters to assess her work and to ask her needs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "What's risky about having your nephew from the village visit? You want your money, you'll get it when you bring him back—or give him to me now for a quarter of the price." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But halfway through the first quarter, with the score tied at 10, Coach sent me in. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She emerged from the room after about a quarter of an hour. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When I open my eyes, the low roof of my quarters looms over me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I prayed for help in finding a quarter I had lost on my way home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked down to the servants’ quarters and peeked into each half-opened room until at last I found her. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The dirt driveway led off the road straight for a quarter of a mile before it began winding among the trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was noon before the first of us crawled out of our quarters. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It is unfathomable to me that he was able to move, let alone drag himself a quarter mile through fields and over ditches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In addition to volunteering at the homeless shelter, he gets grades that land him on the honor roll every quarter. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t exactly a choice,” Mama said, but Cook ignored her and continued chattering on at Ophie as they walked down the narrow hallway to the servants’ quarters out behind the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Yet, perversely, pressure is growing in some quarters to reduce the number of shelters to discourage what is seen—amazingly to me—as overuse of the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As that spellbinding first drive unfolded to give Permian a 7—0 lead, Hankins knew it was over even though there were more than three quarters of football left to play. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I should go ask my mom to trade me quarters for my bill. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Reciting mostly from memory, his voice would roll down the road for a quarter mile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sounds of shouting and laughing rose from the crew’s quarters below deck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When she turned to me, I brought mine, folded in crisp quarters, out of my skirt pocket. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Attracted by the flaring blaze that lit the night, defenders rushed from all quarters to see what was happening. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Ricky bought it from the town dump with a jar of quarters—or so he claimed—a pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he’d hung from the mirror couldn’t mask. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z One day, she came downstairs and saw Dallas sitting on the living room floor, with the jar of quarters in front of him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z With a slight splash, Matthew began scooping quartered slices of peaches into his mouth with such a zealous sucking and slurping that even his father paused to witness the divertissement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The parents of a child provided, on average, half the content of that feature; the grandparents, a quarter; the great-grandparents, an eighth—and so forth, all the way back to the most distant ancestor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mom is using some of the quarters to make a phone call. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z You could buy a quarter loaf of bread, a cup of sugar. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He said he knew a thing or two about comfort, and in the barn he set about arranging their quarters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then she would hear the sound of running feet, sound of curses, the thud, thud of blows, falling on the head and back of the last field hand out of the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Like I was wearing one of those prisoner leg bracelet thingies that’d send a signal to Mom and Dad the second I got within a quarter mile of his house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z So I would not say”—here she was crisp and sharp—“'Betty bought a bit of better butter’ or ‘Insert a quarter in the meter.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z These people had struggled for a quarter of a century to reach their understanding, and now their Indian Summer was before them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was but a quarter of a body torn from the rest: unseeing, gaping head and lolling arm with shoulder and ribs to join them, impaled upon a stake, and much busied with flies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They bought soap from a machine for ten cents and deposited a quarter into the slot in the washer. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z To their right the walkway overlooked a vast glass enclosure, nearly a quarter mile long and tall enough to comfortably fit a trading ship. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The farm area, where a few workers were still picking their way through the fields, spread across the entire northeast quarter of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z During the past quarter century this power has not only increased to one of disturbing magnitude but it has changed in character. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Jefferson informed his secretary of the navy that the Osage were a great nation and that “we must stand well, because in their quarter we are miserably weak.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Soon we’re winning easily—but the second quarter ends with me still on the bench. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit had clocked a new track record that would stand untouched for a decade: a mile and a quarter in 2:01 'A. It was the second-fastest ten furlongs ever run in American racing history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now all I had to do was stop getting quarter past the hour and quarter to the hour confused and learn how to tell time properly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The claw marks were deep—a quarter of an inch at least. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Acererak once again produced two quarters and dropped them into the Joust machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At nightfall he went to find them and he had reached their quarters when Athena struck him with madness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “How much money you brought in today? A quarter?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold insinuated itself from every quarter; it unfurled itself throughout our skins. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He tilts and shakes and decides it’s a quarter. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He resisted it for three quarters of an hour before his breathing slowed and he went to sleep. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After a quarter hour of warm blankets and careful sympathy, Fenton was able to drink something hot, though his hands still shook. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the end, I decided to grab a big bag of Utz Red Hot chips and handed Manny, the owner, four quarters. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He said the stand really belonged to his partner, who was out trying to locate some peanuts to sell to the winos of the quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The job did not include official quarters, so he lived at a hotel. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The runners, first, must have their quarter mile. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When Eliot’s mother arrived at quarter to six, Mr. Sen told her the details of the accident and offered a check reimbursing November’s payment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The city built a new prison, moved the inmates into their new quarters, then rehabbed the old prison and turned it into a high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Before long, they parked in front of a nondescript one-story building about a quarter of a mile from his service station, and everyone got out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Amma grew up in an orphanage and had been getting too old to stay there much longer, so she was happy to get a job that came with a room in the servants' quarters. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The holly shivered just as Saint Gabriel's chimed a quarter to nine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There were five city quarters, designated by the Greek letters alpha through epsilon. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Mrs. Odom frowned and fretted, fingering the soft fabric, but finally pulled out four quarters from a knotted handkerchief. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Or it’s a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The bass player was locked in there also, so every walking quarter note he played was pulsing in exact time with Brian’s left foot hi-hat clicks. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His grandchildren would inherit a quarter; his great-grandchildren, an eighth; his great-great-grandchildren, one-sixteenth, and so forth—until his genetic essence had been diluted, in just a few generations, into complete oblivion. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I saw the guest quarters on the top floor, scouting them out as a possible place my mother could live, if we could manage to talk her into moving in with us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z So he kept the men and sleds and boats close together, relaying forward one agonizing quarter mile at a time. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He went up to a quarter but Francie kept smiling and shaking her head, “no.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind, however, was gusting erratically out of the west, quartering across the racecourse at roughly a forty-five-degree angle, pushing in bursts and fits at the starboard side of the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for — the freedom of all of us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death imaginable, free entertainment that drew huge crowds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There also would be quarters for John Lawrence’s “rat colony,” Hanson reported. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, the majority of the Fishery made it through the fire without much damage at all, but the northeast quarter of the shop was practically destroyed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Presently all was silent, they must have gone through the Service doors into the kitchen quarters, so I went across the hall and into the dining-room once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Uhmma puts down her change: one quarter, two dimes, five nickels, and too many pennies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The old jail was only temporary quarters for us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1933, Assumption Church had moved out of its quarters in the storefront on Hart Street. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So four quarter notes would fill up one measure. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There should have been a quarter moon, for what that’s worth, but the sky was overcast, and we were blind until the prison bus turned up with its headlights blazing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Thomas had returned to his own quarters to work, and Kira too with extra lamps lighted by the tender, had settled to her task, stitching carefully throughout the afternoon. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I dropped a quarter into the left coin slot, the game emitted a familiar electronic bea-wup! sound. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He listened to it splash dismally below, bidding a wistful farewell to the squandered buck and a quarter. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "So you got nothing? Not one dollar? Not a quarter? Not a penny? Even bums got pennies!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The instincts of the military wife were beginning to assert themselves, the old efficiency of stealing away from temporary homes and entering the bloodstream of highways heading to new quarters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They paid only a quarter of their policies’ value. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I sealed the Ziploc bag around the last quarter of my sandwich, got up, and tossed it into an overfilled trash can. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Back in our old quarters in the Training Center, I’m the one who suggests the public marriage proposal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He informed me that I was due on the horns at a quarter hour before noon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Thanks to President Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Administration, begun in 1936, electricity came to the quarter of the population that lived on farmlands. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was even this big controversy when me and him were checking in at the start of the second quarter. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z A dry cleaner’s run by his uncle who pretended to sneeze quarters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “They get her for almost nothing. About all she costs ’em is for her food and there ain’t much of that from the look of her when she came back to the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They have ridges on the side like quarters do. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z For the first quarter of our bout, Mariel was winning decisively. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He grabbed his winter coat and soft, peaked brown trench cap before rushing out of the service quarters on the factory grounds where he lived with his father and younger brother. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The official history of the fair estimated that a quarter of a million people packed Jackson Park on Opening Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Octavian,” said he, “have any voices presented themselves to you — speaking in remote quarters — which you might not, in other seasons, hearken to?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No one else's garden was a quarter the size of ours. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was three quarters of the way around the house when she saw Miss Forcible, standing at the door to the flat she shared with Miss Spink. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Huge ocean rollers swept toward them, and the three boats began clawing up waves whose faces were a quarter of a mile long. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I selected the quarter in my inventory and tried again to remove it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The last quarter of the pages were blank, and she realized they must be Mona’s own records. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I sliced the watermelon half into quarters and cut the fruit into thick wedges. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Young Mistress, the Matriarch wishes to see you in her quarters.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z A message left at quarter to one in the morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Music Mistress had to spend a quarter hour inching me along to the desired volume. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But as they were walking from the house towards the Orangery—where the guardians had their living quarters—Tommy began to get an inkling this was something different. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “The first block was half an inch, the second one a quarter inch...which means we’ve got to take the pylon down three-quarters of an inch.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Three quarters of his body had been terribly burned during the ordeal, his face receiving some of the severest damage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a quarter past one and Hilly and Elizabeth and I are sitting at Elizabeth’s dining room table waiting on Lou Anne to show up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then he appeared to take the quarter from his left hand, while actually letting it drop back into his left hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Hits generally were small; a nickel, dime, or a quarter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I am his lone American son, blessed with every hope and quarter he could provide. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter to a third of the adult urban population is engaged fulltime in the nurture and education of the children. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The day after Wayne Parr said he had chosen powder blue for his dinner jacket, three- quarters of the boys ordered the same from Tuxedo Junction. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z When I met Mom in the kitchen she inspected me up and down, made me change from sneakers to loafers, and then we walked up the street a quarter mile to Dr. Mertz’s home office. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Plutonium is so unusual as to approach the unbelievable,” he would write a quarter century later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z About a quarter of the school took the morning off. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Amari noticed small shacks off to the right—slave quarters, she knew. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But I could also imagine this: Margo picking these books up at various garage sales, buying every travel guide she could get her hands on for a quarter or less. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A little chunky girl took to picking a play out of Tea Cake in the fields and in die quarters. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Private Draper’s child, who hath for several days been quartered with us upon the Crepuscule, would not remove his shirt for washing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I had one more quarter in my pocket; it was my last one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Because I'd never been invited farther into the family's living quarters, I never put together what the view would be from the rear. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then to the corral, where the daughter of the house was working on the training of a quarter horse, an animal of parts named Speckle- bottom. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve been stalling on the boardwalk for nearly a quarter of an hour. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When Ash went downstairs, Beatrice was not in her quarters behind the kitchen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I look down, and there at my feet is my quarter. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Evidently she passed the test for she was given a number, a locker key for which she had to pay a quarter deposit, and told to report the next day at five o’clock. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Within two years, the burgeoning lab had outgrown its drafty quarters. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the bird is at least a quarter mile away, most of it uphill, and by the time I reach him, I'm winded. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I thought for a minute it was that quarter I lost.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I needed to borrow one dollar and twenty cents in nickels, dimes, and quarters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He glanced at his watch as she hovered in front of him: It was a quarter to midnight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “The crime was committed at a quarter past one this morning. Everything goes to show that was so.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Then when she learned, as she certainly would, that the boys were running away, going North, she would try to detain them, would create such an uproar that the entire quarter would know their secret. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A few lessons a day at a quarter a lesson did not make for prosperity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And by the next autumn, a quarter of the riverside blue willows had hummingbear nests in them. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I decided not to push the matter, but I did need a dollar and a quarter for a six-pack, so when I got home I asked my Old Lady for it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “Come on,” Max says, and charges up the winding narrow stairs, and Jutta huffs along behind, each quarter turn presenting a narrow window of blue sky, Max practically hauling her up the steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As if I am in a familiar grocery store, I look along the meadow edge until I see what I’ve come for—the delicious leaves of the lamb’s- quarters. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He went for a larger diameter, an inch and a quarter, and that looked better. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had, I supposed, the first time he went into it, discovered there were living quarters upstairs—perhaps he had even gone up and looked. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I going tonight. If I can find where I lost that quarter.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In a flash—a quarter second—Achilles has made up the distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Here’s fifty cents, Francie. Go out and get a quarter pound of sweet butter, a box of soda crackers and two navel oranges. Tell the man you want navel. Say they’re for a sick lady.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She had starved before, when Connelly got it in his mind to punish the quarter for mischief and cut off rations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For example, in a 2/4 time signature, there are two beats in a measure with the quarter note receiving one beat or one count. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The tied quarters here would sound exactly like a half note crossing the bar line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For a quarter it will play all by itself. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Frankie returned, holding a bottle tucked in the crook of his arm and a tumbler in either hand, each filled a quarter way with golden liquid. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Half-eaten plates of food, shattered liquor bottles, and pieces of broken furniture from a drunken rampage scatter his quarters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I hold up an empty water bottle and pull a quarter from my pocket. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “You can tell them Seabiscuit will meet War Admiral anywhere, weight for age, track fast, from a quarter mile to a couple of miles,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You say you just need a quarter? I got an extra one.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z It used to be a quarter, before that a dime. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After a quarter of an hour, just when they were getting desperate, they heard a sudden movement ahead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z In 4/4 or 2/4 time, for example, the macrobeat is represented by quarter notes, while in 3/4 time it is represented by the dotted half. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It was commonplace to regard this as approximately one quarter of the earth/water globe, but it could extend to up to half of the earth/water globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the Frank family quarters, the first sleepy faces are beginning to emerge from their pillows. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The ladies knew what was polite and would come through with a cup of tea but they had no intention of supplying a meal and paying a quarter, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He scored on a layup in the first quarter when I tripped over my teammate’s foot and fell. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He began walking faster, as if he couldn’t wait to see his creation at close quarters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I went on turning the pages of the notebook—it was about a quarter full—not looking up at him, wishing I’d never brought up Madame. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Nixon sat at the piano in the family quarters and played a few melodies, including one he’d written specially for Pat before they were married. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Sometimes younger women came and went in the commander’s quarters and emerged with sheepish smiles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then it was that Mr. Malloy took to renting the larger pipes as sleeping quarters for single men at a very nominal fee. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Fully a quarter of the boys from my class volunteer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There were about 60,000 Jews in Kraków, approximately one quarter of the city's population. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She’s really tiny for a girl who is age ten and three quarters. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Plodding slowly up the last few steps to the summit, I had the sensation of being underwater, of life moving at quarter speed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The burger itself wasn’t made from woodpeckers, of course, but instead was a quarter pound of beef with ketchup, mayonnaise, and barbecue sauce. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I was able to become more involved in the activities that I was only giving a quarter of myself to. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Folks laughed and screamed so much that you could see why this cost a whole quarter of a American dollar to come in and see. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the quarter, Ben stole two passes from the same forward and drove the length of the court to score. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was asleep with his family when at about a quarter of three the following Sunday morning, a terrifying blast awakened them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When humans and domesticated animals share quarters, they are constantly exposed to each other’s microbes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After that, we came to the quarters every other weekend to study that kind of music on television. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In response the excited citizenry had shelled out precious nickels and quarters and dollars, raising an astonishing twelve thousand dollars to send the crews east. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Shin and his mother lived in the best prisoner quarters Camp 14 had to offer: a “model village” next to an orchard and just across from the field where his mother was later hanged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I rode to within a quarter of a mile of the Salt Licks, then left Jumper tied in a thicket and went on afoot. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Cut the corners off one of the 5-inch sides of the card and fold that end a quarter of the way down, making the face of the squirrel. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Beneath the main deck are the crew’s quarters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She now passed a grapefruit quarter to Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z If you were in the upper quarter of the graduating class at Stuyvesant, you were virtually assured of being able to get into a highly ranked college. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Her dad unfolded the section he was reading and then refolded it in quarters so he could read a different part of the page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Scoob read To Kill a Mockingbird in language arts last quarter. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Last years classes, gone. Last years records, gone. Sports seasons, gone. A quarter of those Fullbrookers are gone too.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Its twenty-odd rooms are separated into grace-and-favor apartments for those members of the faculty unable to find, or afford, other quarters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I step on and toss in some quarters with a clink. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It seemed a long journey from my father’s quarters at the outskirts of the castle to Gertrude’s rooms at the heart of Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Extra torches were being lit in all quarters, so the city looked almost bathed in sunlight. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His canteen was still almost a quarter full. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She spent at least a quarter of an hour on each ballet- dancing figurine. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He would seek out the younger members of the staff “to learn about us and from us,” recalled Alvarez, who was Loomis’s junior by a quarter century. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Appalachians alone lost four billion trees, a quarter of its cover, in a generation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Meet me at the Museum of art near the door at quarter past 12 if you can and I will give you your Christmas dough back. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “The boys’ cottage is located in the old maids’ quarters, which is farther from the neighbors.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All I can say is it will take my whole entire life to get some wood cut out of that oak tree with my Virginia quarter. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew moments of homesickness when she longed for the quarter, remembering the old familiar smoky smell of the cabin, the good smell of the earth when it was plowed in the spring. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Assumption Church, which at that time operated out of a small storefront on Hart Street, was still less than a quarter full. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Finally, he made it to the southwest quarter, near the forest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I need ten cents for the bus, ten cents for the subway, a quarter for a sandwich,’ and he would give her the rest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Dinner is a quarter of a BBQ chicken from the supermarket, unsalted and washed down with a familiar, low- tech diuretic—beer. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The pond is not a large one - a quarter of a mile around its perimeter perhaps - so that by stepping out to any promontory, one can command a view of its entirety. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They started at six o'clock less a quarter in the morning. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Uncle Sam poured another quarter glass of wine into her glass, then filled it the rest of the way with water for the next blessing. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It only went in about a quarter of the way. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I use a quarter of the sweater money to buy more old sweaters. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Every quarter, we would have to submit our schedules for the next three months for possible drug testing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Uncle Vernon’s large red face was hidden behind the morning’s Daily Mail, and Aunt Petunia was cutting a grapefruit into quarters, her lips pursed over her horselike teeth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She was afraid that Old Rit would exclaim, loudly, laugh and cry, and everyone in the quarter would know that she had come back. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For three- quarters of a mile, the two crews rowed in lockstep, both furiously hacking at the choppy water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I have a few quarters in my pocket and a key to our house tucked into a pocket my mother has sewn into the inside of my jeans after I lost my third key. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was a quarter inch thick in the middle, tapering to the edges. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Certainly no more than three quarters of an hour—not too many prisoners to release, as it’s not technically a prison—17 in all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Ain’t that something. So, you know what I done, Ignatius. I give her a quarter and I says, ‘Here, darling, go buy you a trinket for your little granchirren.’” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I took three quarters out of my shoulder purse and dropped them into the PTA can. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She spent some nights in Obinze’s boys’ quarters, lounging on his mattress on the floor, listening to music. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The meditative, pastel yellow cube that faced the street contained the main living quarters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Ma, let me have a taste! There’s almost a quarter of a pot of it!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I went out the back way and walked a quarter of a mile to the railroad tracks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the sun set, coming to the rescue of the Old Ones, and there was no moon for that quarter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s nearly quarter to four when we walk into the valley where the Grounds are, and I remember Sophie and me here, over at the athletic track. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Uncle glanced at the quarter and quickly put it into his pocket. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A quarter an hour was a decent take, and he was saving for third-class train tickets to the Mexican border, the price of a new life with his girl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The crammed quarters magnified the tension, fear, and distrust. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Would they see the immense melancholy that hung over the quarter, so oppressive that men had to dull their sensibilities in noise or wine or sex or gluttony in order to escape it? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be fun to have him go, but the pond is more than a quarter of a mile off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I recognized some of them, like Shagufta, who had been holding the laundry when I entered the servants' quarters earlier, and Ghulam, the driver who brought me here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A quarter hour had passed since she’d last moved; her legs were stiff, her mouth dry. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She was brought back to the quarter, unconscious, bleeding. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The path continued rising and falling for about another quarter of a mile, then dipped down into a hollow. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Turning to Clay, Mr. Derby said, “Son, run down to the quarters tomorrow and get one of the slaves from the fishing gang to take her place.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s maybe only a quarter mile below us! Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His eyes were covered by the milky film that had slowly screened out all light over the course of a quarter century. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jane had not been gone a quarter of an hour, and they had only accomplished some views of St. Mark’s Place, Venice, when Frank Churchill entered the room. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Eumaios, taking flesh from every quarter, put lean strips on the fat of sacrifice, floured each one with barley meal, and cast it into the blaze. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me assure you, terror is half the fun. You should hear the ladies squeal! But don’t worry. After the first quarter mile, the ground becomes a blur.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A mile and a quarter was War Admiral’s optimal distance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Nazis then ordered 5,000 non-Jews living within the area to move out so that 15,000 Jews—every Jew still in Kraków—could be crammed into these new quarters. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The proclamation also stated that the union leaders, with great patriotic spirit, had reduced their demands to two points: a reform of medical services and the building of latrines in the living quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The next day, he had made her gather her few things from the servants’ quarters, where she’d been living, and sent her off. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He bought three flounders from the man for a quarter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the servants used this stair, for the fourth floor held only servants’ quarters, storage closets for linens and out-of-season clothes, sewing rooms, and so forth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Trotter knotted the tie for him with the kind of assured expertise born of knotting one man’s tie for more than a quarter of a century. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The strands of wire were four inches apart and a quarter of an inch thick. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z After running almost a quarter of a mile, I caught up to the wagon and stood with my hands on my waist trying to catch my breath. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Her mama got snake-bit today, sir. Real bad. She done run to the quarters to see her,” Lena explained quickly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She inspected it, satisfied herself there was nothing strange about the quarter. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z So many times in the past week, I’ve nearly walked to her quarters to see how she is. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Most important, we should remind them to pay each quarter’s school fees ahead of time. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They dropped the jar of quarters they’d been counting and rushed around the corner to where Calder’s parents were watching TV in the next room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z But when I tried to remove the quarter, it wouldn’t budge. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z During the six months prior to the dinner at Jefferson’s quarters, Madison went through a conversion process, or perhaps a reconversion, from the religion of nationalism to the old revolutionary faith of Virginia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If worse came to worst, the boys’ swords wouldn’t do much good in such close quarters. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The only other sign of life is a faint light from Javier’s quarters in the back near the lab. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The poorer quarters swarmed with women who were ready to sell themselves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And he scored in the fourth quarter, with only five seconds left in the game, when he stole the ball from me and raced down for a layup. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Almost as soon as she arrived, word of what she wanted was relayed through the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally at a quarter past four we had lunch. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z As was domestic violence—I had always heard men beat their wives, since we lived in such close quarters, but now I would see it out in the streets as well. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Later, two village women came and were taken in to the commander’s quarters; much later, the soldiers threw stones at them as they left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For almost a week he charged kids a quarter apiece for a look. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It was built of logs, just like the cabins in the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I stayed out where I could just see the shore and rowed on for three quarters of an hour in the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Sunday evening at a quarter to eight we trooped upstairs carrying the big laundry basket, which had been decorated with cutouts and bows made of pink and blue carbon paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “I shall switch on in a quarter of an hour. Take a good look at these comrades’ faces before you go. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The night was dark, lit only by a quarter moon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I figured it served the coach right for making me sit out the first quarter. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I hooked my feet under the boat’s inflatable bench, and as Tyson grabbed Annabeth and me by the backs of our shirts, I gave the thermos cap a quarter turn. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He took a quarter loaf of stale white bread from the top of the refrigerator, to help soak up the casserole. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps a quarter of the windows in the street were broken and boarded up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The men fired again and again, and, when the animals got to close quarters, lashed out with their sticks and their heavy boots. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They said lice were out of control in their quarters. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Exxon comes out with its earnings and we need to get that as fast as possible up on screens around the world: ‘Exxon earned thirty-nine cents this quarter as opposed to thirty-six cents last quarter.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “I lost it. Me and Benjy hunted all day for that quarter. You can ask him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “A quarter,” she said, digging it out of the pocket of her pedal pushers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Scooping him up, she walked slowly along the pathway past the lotus pond and crossed the half-moon bridge to the Matriarch’s quarters. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z In order that Tucker could keep at least one of each kind of coin, Harry Cat figured out that they should bring over one half dollar, four quarters, one dime, five nickels, and fifteen cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Legal services is in a building about a quarter mile away. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, the first dot after a half note adds a quarter note length; the second dot would add an eighth note length. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I listened as the metallic clangor rolled away over the rooftops of the quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect was that he displayed a quarter in his hand, raised it to his mouth, blew on it, and lowered it again, displaying the same quarter all the while. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I asked how much I should have given and she said a quarter at least and thirtyfive cents if the suitcase was too heavy. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Fold the paper in half, then into quarters, and one more into eighths. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The score on the game was zero to zero, fourth quarter, making this the most boring game ever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He dropped some quarters in her hand and focused his attention on a point just beyond her left ear, where a picture of a grazing dairy cow hung on the wall. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The owner of a black baseball team remembered that he “moved four times...seeking desirable living quarters.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was eating apple quarters off the tray. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernie and Genie had been outside having a snowball fight, and Down the Street Donnie, known for being a jerk, had covered a quarter in snow and zinged it at Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When she had gone a quarter of a mile, she stopped and looked back. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re a quarter each down the store, but you can sell ’em in here for a dollar. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She lost a quarter in a vacant lot, and although she and George hunted for three days they never found it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He rocks back and forth at a slow rhythm that fits in with the beeps, and opens his eyes about a quarter of the way every minute. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z They were transferring it to living quarters attached to the hospital. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z About a quarter mile away, a Hyperborean giant was sitting in the bog, peacefully picking mud from between his toes with a broken tree trunk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The quarters he shared with Ser Jorah were a cabin only by courtesy; the dank, dark, foul-smelling closet had barely enough space to hang a pair of sleeping hammocks, one above the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It takes three quarters of a second for Oliver to be onto something else. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z When he had finished with his handkerchief, he folded it neatly in quarters and replaced it in his pocket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Many students who demanded that the university be ‘shut down’ were careful to check with instructors to be certain they would get course credit at the end of the quarter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Last night Miss Skeeter and I worked on the stories until a quarter to midnight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She thought about touching the Hoppers’ money and how mad Mr. Hopper had been, and how mad she got when Mr. Hopper pulled the jar of quarters away from Dallas and yelled at him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z My mom digging under the couch cushions for quarters. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z About a quarter of a century ago Dr. Knipling startled his colleagues by proposing a unique method of insect control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Still in the same quarter, he backpedaled, saw Robert Brown break free, and threw another touchdown pass, this one good for eighteen yards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian and I played hide-and-seek among the clicking slot machines, checking the trays for overlooked quarters, while Dad was winning money at the blackjack table. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll show you to your quarters. It isn’t far. It’s in a wing of this building.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cheeks burning, I pushed two quarters through the gap under the window. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Figure 1.39: Note lengths work just like fractions in arithmetic: two half notes or four quarter notes last the same amount of time as one whole note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We were inside the servants’ quarters, which was really more of a toolshed added on to the back of the house, full of wooden ladders, buckets of old paint, turpentine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In time, no doubt, he would need larger quarters, but for the moment these would serve whilst he accustomed himself to command. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We’re sent in teams of two to search cars on the northbound side of the freeway, maybe a quarter mile up, because all the closer cars have already been inspected. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She waited until the man felt the knife point before she jabbed it skillfully, about a quarter of an inch through his shirt into the skin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The Saloon and Steakhouse is the first wooden building you see when you enter Stagecoach Pass after parking in the giant dirt lot, which is only a quarter full on the busiest days. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There were simple sleeping quarters at the top of the building, where students traveling from other towns could stay during competitions. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His uneasiness increasing instead of subsiding, after a quarter of an hour’s consideration, he set off for the coach-office with Startop, who volunteered his company, to make inquiry when the next coach went down. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The same effect was suspected in sorghum, sunflower, spiderwort, lambs quarters, pigweed, and smartweed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He handed her a map and a quarter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Flora Baumbach slapped a wad of bills on the table and two clinking quarters. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The other boys squatted upright on their beds, watching h«n- Agravaine came to the unicorn, and began jabbing his spear into its quarters, into its slim befly, into its ribs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He concealed a quarter in his right palm, and openly displayed the other quarter in his left hand, between finger and thumb. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “It’ll cost you a quarter to find that out.” he said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Roger Morris and Gordy Adam, up front, struggled to keep the bow of the boat pointed due north under the relentless push of the quartering waves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the third quarter, the Christian-school coach called a time-out and complained to the ref about the Colonel, pointing at him angrily. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I took out the quarter and held it up in front of my eyes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He dropped two quarters into the newspaper vending machine and pulled up on the handle, but it wouldn’t open. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “What would you do for a quarter?” the white man asked, still gazing off. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “What I want with his truck. I was just hunting for that quarter.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The astronauts float around inside the space shuttle’s cramped quarters, where there is no gravity. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a quarter to six by the clock inside the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Preliminary radar surveys suggested that as much as a quarter to a third of the surface area of Mars might be radar-dark, and therefore dangerous for Viking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I was called over to the slave cabins—the quarter—to watch Weylin punish a field hand for the crime of answering back. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z After another three hours and only an additional three quarters of a mile, the Boss called a halt. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “He came back a quarter of an hour ago. He has orders to take your tea out under the chestnut tree.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z More surprising were the spacious and luxurious quarters available for VIP travelers on the seagoing vessels of a great American corporation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Marcus called the same play from the second quarter, Will set a pick for me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z A guard tower rose from the fence line about a quarter mile to the north of where the prisoners chopped wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When I return to my room the pods are gone and replaced with a beehive of backlit hexagon cells, just like all the Collective’s quarters. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We reach our quarters, and I collapse onto the edge of my cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a quarter till midnight before Naomi could get away from the bonfire. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I drove into a wind quartering in from my starboard bow and felt the buffeting, sometimes staggering blows of the gale I helped to make. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “More than a quarter of a million, correct?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Figure 1.56: In six eight time, a dotted quarter usually gets one beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z These are thin disks about the size of a quarter which are stuck on your chest with a special kind of glue and then covered by adhesive tape. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, let them get every quarter and dime in the county; it was no skin off my back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I had his hands, and one quarter his wit, I’d be eating off silver plates inside a year.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The Annex was delighted to hear that we’ll all be receiving an extra quarter pound of butter for Christmas. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The Museum and Library were therefore either located within or adjoining the Beta quarter. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She ripped the letter in half, ripped the halves in quarters, and let the pieces flutter to the floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We got a quarter of the way up the hill when a guy in the next squad called out. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Six hundred rooms, military and servant’s quarters, three gardens, a game park, and stables on either side,’’ said Dorian, staring at his home. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My grades for the last quarter of school will be much better—I promise. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z According to reports, he did not join the queen in her quarters. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Beyond M31 is another, very similar galaxy, our own, its spiral arms turning slowly, once every quarter billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have to live well together in close quarters for weeks at a time—traveling, eating, sleeping, and racing without internal friction among them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Hulls lay like chunks of cleavered fish: a conning tower here, a crew quarters there, the prow of an oil tanker pointing straight up to the sky. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I have to get my cloak, so I head to the servants’ quarters in the open-air hallway just outside the kitchen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Viola refused to call it either the laboratory or the former slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z "My thanks, Lord Petyr, but I will be taking Lord Stark's former quarters in the Tower of the Hand." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It’s about the size of a quarter and has cracks all over it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Heed my warning, Nathan. If you lie to us and this outhouse is short of miraculous, we will move into your sleeping quarters and bite you every time you sleep.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I am become persona non grata in that quarter. I am no wise welcome in the stateroom imperial.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Over two meters tall, a half meter wide, and three- quarters of a meter thick. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a knock on the door of their compartment and the round-faced boy Harry had passed on platform nine and three- quarters came in. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “It was his opinion,” recalled Truman, “that such an invasion would cost at a minimum a quarter of a million American casualties.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I went ahead about a quarter of the way into Papa’s row. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z This was like the old quarter of Tours, where they roasted coffee at the spice shops each afternoon. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He slaughtered them and singed them at the fire, flayed and quartered them, and skewered the meat to broil it all; then gave it to Odysseus hot on the spits. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The two boats churned up the lake for almost a quarter of a mile, locked together in that configuration— Washington’s white blades glinting in the sunlight, Cal’s flashing shards of blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For example, in a 3/4 time signature, there are three beats in a measure and the quarter note receives one beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He got down and picked up the quarter and rubbed it on his leg. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, I’m a minor, but one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z At a quarter to five I kissed Catherine good-by and went into the bathroom to dress. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “It’s a dollar and a quarter for the mend, but I’ll take that book Nate likes so much in trade. If your parents find that fair.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you come on over like the rest and spend a quarter?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Staff Sergeant X was in his room on the second floor of the civilian home in which he and nine other American soldiers had been quartered, even before the armistice. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “Here’s fifty cents that says you can’t,” Mary Anne said, tossing two quarters on the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By quarter to ten, people start showing up in earnest, and I realize I have to pick up Milla. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Leroy folds the paper in quarters and tucks it under his thigh. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It seemed absurd to spend my nights in such cramped quarters with an animal who was becoming roomy in his needs, when I could have an entire island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Next, he removed a glove and fished a quarter from the pocket of his fatigues. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the second quarter, the Celtics went up by ten. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time I’d set up a bill-paying system and gotten everything entered and paid, Auntie Buzz had turned a nice profit in the past quarter. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "This will pay your debts and buy you clothing. Call me in the morning and I'll have selected your living quarters. For a start your salary will be sixty dollars a week." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean nothing, hog. The next time I inspect this room, I want that quarter to bounce up and put my eye out.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Why don’tcha drop a quarter in his collection box? 5TH JUROR: NOW wait a minute. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z People don't like to know that three quarters of their tampon strings are being buried, or that their paychecks have less to do with their company's profitability than its owner's compassion. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z More than thirty minutes passed unnoticed as these scraps—memories, judgments, vague resolutions, questions—uncoiled quietly before her, while she barely shifted her position and did not hear the clock strike the quarter hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At quarter before nine the scholars had gathered in School Number Seven. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z But the anthem's running out and I'm only three quarters of the way through the wood when the music ends, the sky goes dark, and I'm forced to stop. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It is a rectangle in black, and once it has settled into place, it shakes silently as though there is some kind of seismic disturbance on the planet beneath the quarter moon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Lindsey Lee Wells, you put a quarter in the swear jar right this minute!” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z A draught of cooks, from every inn and eating-house for miles around, arrived to supplement the dwarves and other odd folk that were quartered at Bag End. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He went all through the two bags and held up the quarter- bottle of brandy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z For each day that I fail to find cheaper quarters, which is every day now, I am spending $49.95 for the privilege of putting clothes away at Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s something vaguely familiar about the Kensington Palace guest quarters, even though he’s never been here before. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z With serious face and a high-held, final flick he split each side in half, quartering the pig. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is but one of dozens, and not the largest. Shanghai, Calcutta, Batavia, Bangkok—They are widely spread and they are the answer to feeding the billion and three quarters of the East.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In 4/4 or 2/4 time, microbeats would be represented by the eighth notes, while in 3/4 time microbeats would be represented by the quarter notes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The plan of the living quarters was as unimaginative as a first-generation Greek landlord could contrive it to be. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The station was at the end of the field, about a quarter of a mile ahead. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Ben heard a car door slam at a quarter of seven. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In "four four time," for example, there are four beats in a measure and a quarter note gets one beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do. I double.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z His memory was a catalogue of vital notes on horses and men: hangs in the stretch, balks in close quarters, only hits right-handed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the playoffs, the Carter Cowboys beat Plano East 21-7 with two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It may have been the fastest quarter ever run by a yearling. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never seen any coins from anywhere else, but he wouldn’t have been surprised if quarters in Mozambique looked like flattened beer caps. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Ophie ran through the kitchen, down past the servants’ quarters, and outside. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The first recognition of malignancies traceable to the age of industry came during the last quarter of the 19th century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Life was communal: members shared living quarters, meals, and chores. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I hip him a quarter, slide into the chair, and get my shoes shined. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He stepped up to the Joust machine and dropped both quarters into the left coin slot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Ernest sprinted back to his bachelor quarters at Berkeley’s Faculty Club to share his theory with his fellow residents, most of them unmarried junior faculty members like himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Brewing high thunderheads, he churned the deep with both hands on his trident—called up wind from every quarter, and sent a wall of rain to blot out land and sea in torrential night. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s an empty room in the servants’ quarters,” said the fierce man. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were not even quartering on the scent. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Lost in my thoughts, I don't notice anything unusual about Skulls' quarters when I arrive at my room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “The officers are discussing where to erect the winter quarters for the soldiers.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We are nowhere near any of the Collective’s living quarters, so I’m wondering exactly where he could have seen the book. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She longed to be back in the quarter, in the cabin with Ben and Rit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “They must have taken a quarter of him and of the best meat,” he said aloud. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited for ages, and was just about to leave when finally she hung up, and I dug in my pocket for a quarter and dialed the twins’ number. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the car. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would you quarter like it, though?” asked Michael. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z A quarter mile on, he found good reason to reconsider. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was quite a quarter of an hour before anyone spoke. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen crew, headed by a West Indian chef named Duke Vaughn, worked with almost unbelievable efficiency in the cramped quarters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As the fall quarter at the university wound down, Joe headed home to Sequim to spend Christmas with Joyce and her family. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Across the campus a clock struck the quarter hour and something inside me seemed to muffle its sound. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z So it's about quarter of ten, and I make the fifty-ninth call. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe that guy bought us the root beer,” Irene said, chewing hard, attempting a bubble; but it was too early, and she barely made one the size of a quarter. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z She sliced the soft, fuzzy plomms into quarters on the big wooden chopping block. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Pollard talked in Seabiscuit’s ear as they whirled through a quarter mile in a scorching twenty-two seconds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z News, good or bad, traveled swiftly through the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When her mother turned around, the young woman quickly grabbed another leg quarter off the cutting board and tucked it into a box. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z More than three quarters of the knights were there, massed together like a great steel fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The day that a car is driven off the lot is the worst day in its life, for it instantly loses as much as a quarter of its value. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Each man gets almost a quarter of a cheese. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Teachers are like the machines that take quarters for bouncy balls. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z From all quarters of the room they were rushing upon him, their shadows huge on the ceiling. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The school bus still hadn't come by quarter past eight. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “One quarter of rhubarb and custards, and one of crystallized ginger.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z These two pieces were the only wooden furniture in the hut—the supply boxes in Rupa’s quarter were made of cardboard. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Food comes irregularly, carried out from the citadel by the guardian’s wife across the quarter mile of rocks at low tide while shells explode in the city behind her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Were they plotting something out there in the quarter? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter of a mile farther on the young dog looked carefully around before dropping his rabbit. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the end of my road is the highway. Head left, and in a quarter of a mile you’ll come to a gas station. You figure it out from there.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Slowly and painstakingly he quartered the land on either side of the ravine. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z For the first time in a quarter century, they received an audience. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are over three quarters of a million volumes here, and that’s not even taking into consideration the clays or scrolls or fragments from Caluptena.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then what I did, I went down near the lagoon and I sort of skipped the quarters and the nickel across it, where it wasn't frozen. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z His latest girlfriend, a blond young honey, stamped a black spot on the back of our hands after we gave her our quarters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Claudia said, “You wouldn’t consider two and a quarter cents very much, would you?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered that Shawn had sat by the pickup for a quarter of an hour, his brain bleeding. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then came the carving of the quarters, and they spitted morsels of lean meat on the long sharp tines and broiled them at arm’s length upon the fire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he found a couple of quarters and laid them on the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I grabbed it out of my dresser drawer and ran to the servants’ quarters. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The news had spread over the quarter like a wave of acid. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Esteban was at the wheel, his heart contracted, as they searched for Father Antonio’s old church in the poor quarters of the city where he hadn’t been in years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It took not half an hour but an hour and three quarters, because Will had to stop and rest several times. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will be increasing your domains by a quarter.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The emotional atmosphere in the cramped quarters became tense, ugly, petty, bickering. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Chipper’s tail was cut short because he had caught it in the wheel and chopped about a quarter of it off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After sitting in this manner a quarter of an hour without hearing Miss Bingley’s voice, Elizabeth was roused by receiving from her a cold enquiry after the health of her family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z A quarter mile ahead of them, the long rocky strip of land curved in and met the cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I try to think of other things I can pawn, but I barely own anything except books, and those you can only sell to used-book stores for like a quarter. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Grandpa was on Dancer, a muscular bay quarter horse stallion. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z At least four people had thrown in dimes and one had tossed in a quarter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the iron law demanded a trial, so there’d be one next month, when the quarter court came through these parts on its rounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He walked for at least a quarter of an hour before glimpsing the first beds of rushes along the riverbanks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed her the picture, and she slid it into their envelope as they began to walk back toward the Spurlock building, now about three quarters of a mile away. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Her mouth chanted my lines at quarter volume. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He had three before I forced myself to drink a quarter of mine. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “But they don’t like me very much on account of this used to be their house. Now they all share a room in the servant’s quarters.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At a quarter to seven he gave up and got dressed before waking Julie. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I change into the yellow robe in my bedroom and make sure the quarters I sewed into the pockets aren’t making them droop. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Instead, she was told to vacate her Navy quarters and return to her old office at the Coast Guard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This is a little different than I’d imagined it all quarter. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Her maids, leaving their quarters, came with white arms bare to clear the wine cups and the bread, and move the trestle boards where men had lingered drinking. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And once, I had won so much I stood on the beach in the moonlight skipping silver quarters across the calm water as the little waves pawed the shore. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Among the first to grapple directly with this question was the Jesuit educator Jose de Acosta, who spent a quarter century in New Spain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He’d put a whole one in his mouth and sit quietly and deal with it for the next quarter hour, his tongue wrestling the sticky orb. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Much farther out I could see Jasper and Alice, at least a quarter of a mile apart, appearing to throw something back and forth, but I never saw any ball. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Even among those agitated enough to write letters, only about a quarter said the program had scared them to any degree. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z His goal was to expose them at close quarters to the charismatic energy of his protege Ernest Lawrence, and he was surely successful at finalizing their approval for the cyclotron grant. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the third floor were our sleeping quarters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He later recounted: “I felt bad when the pen was handed to me, because it looked like the ones that I was always buying for a quarter or a half dollar.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One depended instead on a pair of tasseled wall lights shaded by a quarter circle of fake parchment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Washington wilted and finished three- quarters of a length back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If the quarter had any magical properties, they weren’t revealed in its item description, which was completely empty. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At that very moment, more than a quarter million Chinese soldiers massed on the Chinese side of the Yalu, preparing a surprise attack in support of their Communist neighbor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Cloud Pond was down a steep side trail, about a quarter of a mile off the AT. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When my father’s business had failed, we had traded our comfortable house in the center of the Jewish quarter for a wattle-and-daub cottage on our neighborhood’s outskirts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In that same year, in August, in October, in November, the slaves in the quarter and the masters in the Big Houses began to talk about another story. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The patches on my feet are bigger than quarters now. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Midway in the first quarter, when he had seen the Cooper cornerback go into motion before the play started, he knew they were going to be in man-to-man. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All those momentous consequences of pottery triggered a population explosion, causing Japan’s population to climb from an estimated few thousand people to a quarter of a million. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the first quarter, Red intercepted a pass. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero was the first to spot the Mary Lou, maybe a quarter mile away, and just a little off to the right. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z So I find myself following him down the hall that leads to his quarters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Cold tinned beans! It’s quarter to two. The pub’ll be shut by the time we get there.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was at the edge of the two-lane road leading to Santa Maria, about a quarter of a mile from Bonetti Ranch. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I woke up at quarter to three and saw that Mr. Dussel was already up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He told him that he’d take a match at any distance from a mile to a mile and a quarter, anytime the track was fast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the time when things traditionally went wrong for kidnappers—the third quarter of operations. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z When he beat me on my last quarter, he said, “Nice game,” with the nod I told you about, and that felt good, cause he was almost in college even. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Folks came from all over, plantations that had favored this or that arrangement of quarters, so the cabins came in various shapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It had almost a quarter of a million miles on the clock, and smelled faintly of bourbon, tobacco, and more strongly of something that reminded Shadow of bananas. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “How can any of you depend on me? If I’m really peculiar then it’s just a little bit, I think. Like I’m a quarter peculiar and the rest of you guys are full-blooded.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And as I spoke comfortably to Will on one side, I sought through the confusion for Bono; and I saw rage and fear in all quarters. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He threw a quarter into the air, somehow caught it behind his back, and slapped it on his forearm. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The palace complex comprised the Beta quarter and was in the northeast; Alpha quarter housed the courts of justice, and Delta the town’s extensive Jewish community. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He drafted plans, elegant plans, in eighth-, quarter-, and half-inch scale. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy stared at the quarter as if he’d never seen one before. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In some patches, she could see the screen on the porch, but they hadn’t gotten a quarter of the growth yet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, they put me to work chopping firewood to heat the soldiers’ quarters. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Neither the master nor the overseer had heard or seen anything unusual in the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corner of the room was a large fish tank that was only a quarter full, but the bottom was covered with rocks and dark mud that clouded the water. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z "This will pay your debts and buy you clothing. Call me in the morning and I'll have selected your living quarters. For a start your salary will be sixty dollars a week." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He held up a finger, asking me to wait, and walked to his living quarters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Five dollars gets you twenty quarters, which is a ton to put into swimsuit trunk pockets. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When Permian went ahead 35-0 in the third quarter Gaines started to substitute liberally because he didn’t believe in running up the score. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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