| 单词 | quire |
| 例句 | I have removed the final pages of this book as a quire, and it is my purpose to use them to demonstrate the arts of literacy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And so today, I wrote the names of my companions upon the first page of that quire—POMP and SLANT—and they traced them after. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Some of the questions are multiple-choice, while others re quire several sentences to answer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I am at the end of this book; there are no further leaves to write upon, but the stubs of that quire I tore out to instruct my friends in writing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s very glorious with the banners of the knights of the garter which are very colorful in the quire all around them.” Meghan Markle to follow in thousand years of UK royal history at... 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z No energy for a quire of paper to be scrawled across. When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z He moves the pieces of the press around as he explains print jargon — “pieing,” “quire,” “furniture.” A printing press operator and a snail expert? These museum workers have become unlikely TikTok stars. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Standing in the quire of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, he remembered his mother and offered his people comfort after a year of loss and upheaval. Charles Charts a Path as a King for All Holiday Seasons 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z The queen will be buried at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, which is next to the quire of the main St George's Chapel. Queen's final resting place is a small chapel in historic Windsor Castle 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Markle walked with her bridesmaids and pageboys, up the nave of the chapel to the quire, where she then took the arm of Prince Charles. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry marry as millions watch on 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The “quire,” or choir, is the section of the chapel between the main seating area — called the nave — and the high altar. Meghan Markle to Walk Down the Aisle With Prince Charles 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “Dame Rose Waldegrave says that ... certain nuns do sometimes have with them in the quire in time of mass the boys whom they teach, and these do make a noise in quire during divine service.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z They sung almost all their divine service, and every ministre had those that made up a quire whom the rest follow’d. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z O Milan, O the chanting quires, The giant windows' blazoned fires, The height, the space, the gloom, the glory! Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z The emancipation of man will require great patience. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z If success would always respond to labor, his would have been a real triumph; for the effort cost him many days, two sleepless nights, a headache, and half a quire of paper. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z There are references, too, to disturbances and diversions created by the children in the quire. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z In this case the quires must first be opened, the crease taken out, and the sheets laid open. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z On Philomel I fix’d my whole desire; And listen’d for the queen of all the quire; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing; And wanted yet an omen to the spring. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z He would destroy a quire of paper in composing a single stanza; and it is said that during the twenty-five most prolific years of his life he made only about thirty-three verses a year. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z But now a wandering land breeze came And a far sound of feathery quires; It seemed to blow from the dying flame, They seemed to sing in the smouldering fires. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z The requirements seem to be that the nun should be able to take part in the daily offices in the quire, for which reading and singing were essential. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Still let me pierce into the midnight depth Of yonder grove, of wildest, largest growth; That, forming high in air a woodland quire, Nods o'er the mount beneath. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Ream, rēm, n. a quantity of paper consisting of 20 quires of 24 sheets. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Come blessed bird! and with thy sugred rellish, Help our declining quire not to embellish; For Bonny-bootes that so aloft would fetch it, Oh! he is dead, and none of us can reach it! Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 98, September 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-05T03:00:41.160Z A flash of the talisman was soon to raise a bottle of ink and a quire of foolscap. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z There have doubtless been quires upon quires of brilliant writing devoted to that absorbing theme. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Damsel and Skylark knew their friend; A thrill ran through the pack like fire, And little whimpers ran in quire. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Quire, kwīr, n. a collection of paper consisting of twenty-four sheets, the twentieth part of a ream, each having a single fold.—v.t. to fold in quires. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z It is both nice and cheap, selling from fifty to sixty cents per ream, according to the size, and there are twenty quires in a ream. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Who, when the hosts of morning sung, First listen'd to their quire? The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z There was a large leather blotter, with pouches, a pad of athletic club letterheads, a lot of spoiled half sheets of foolscap, about a quire of clean paper, and a few small miscellaneous articles. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The quire at Warwick, as in many other places, is shamefully abused by the children that are taught in it. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z Beauty and love are nigh, And with their deathless quire— Soon shall thine eager cry Be numbered and expire. A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z Before you commence your manuscript, take a quire, and prepare each sheet by splitting it all down the folded side, with a sharp paper-cutter, thus dividing it into half-sheets. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Beauty and love are nigh, And with their deathless quire Soon shall thine eager cry Be numbered and expire. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z But, prowling, like a Polar Bear, up and down the pavement Last eve, and grinding molar Teeth over forced enslavement, A miracle I noted, A "spook," deserving quires Of commentaries quoted By "psychic" Mr. Myers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z In many respectable shops, in the country especially, the waste-book is formed by a quire or two of the commonest paper used in the particular trade, that will bear pen and ink, sown together. Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z What Prince's quire of music can excel That which within this shade does dwell? Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z In the midst of the room was a little Japan table with a quire of gilt paper upon it, and on the paper a silver snuff-box made in shape of a little book. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z With tuneful reed, With string and horn and high-adoring quire Thy welcome we prepare. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z One might fill many quires of paper with such instances of tasteless, senseless, vexatious, and most unscholarlike innovation. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z It is a quarto volume, arranged in quires of five sheets or ten leaves each, like Codex Marchalianus of the Prophets written in the sixth or seventh century and Cod. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z After this a “quire of ballads” was sung for. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z Of thankless man hath thy race ceased to quire? Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z To possess a whole quire of paper was the child’s greatest ambition. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z She took leave somewhat curtly, carrying her two quires of paper with her, but leaving the coarse darning cotton which she did not intend to use. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z The first quire is in a different hand. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z They laid his body in the quire Upon a purple pall. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z But in this way the chemical process of his love-making may last full as long as a process at law, and I am prepared for three quires. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Page has read a whole lot and knows reams and quires of history, but never has studied any French at all and has to go with the kids in mathematics. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z My dear Dilke—Whatever I take to for the time I cannot leave off in a hurry; letter writing is the go now; I have consumed a quire at least. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Bezae, or in a series of fasciculi, each ending with a quire of varying size, like the Cod. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z "Well, then, you can run over to Schwarz's and buy me a couple of quires of paper; my supply is exhausted, and I will, meanwhile, have tea brought up." Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z It ought to be printed on paper sufficiently wide to allow of a flap or turn-over, so that the leaf can be placed in the quire and properly sewn. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z The “make-up” of an old book in original binding is usually sufficiently shown by the strings in the middle of each quire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z It would take me a whole day and a quire of paper to give you anything like detail. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. Heathen Mythology I would send a quire, if I could get a conveyance. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Hitherto the quires had been marked by hand, and this improvement was not suffered to drop for a time like the others, but quickly spread all over Europe. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z If the quires or gatherings in the book to be described are signed in print, the signatures used should be quoted without brackets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z I know not yet how large a parcel I can send—I mean by way of Letters—I hope there can be no objection to my dowling up a quire made into a small compass. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The only reason for this must be to avoid running over into a new leaf or quire: there could be no motive for this crowded page if the poem had ever run on beyond it. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn It is written in a paper book, which is formed of four quires of paper, each consisting of six sheets, and is of the size of a modern quarto volume. The Boke of Noblesse In the earliest printed books the quires were printed page by page exactly as the quires of a manuscript had been written. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z It contained more matter than a quire of paper. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Two curtains worked with golden blazonries divided the quire from the congregation. Sinister Street, vol. 1 A quire of note-paper stuffed full would hardly contain all that I might find to say in answer to it,—on one side and the other. Ayala's Angel On Philomel I fix'd my whole desire, And listen'd for the queen of all the quire; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing, And wanted yet an omen to the spring. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 The word quaire or quire is a shortened form of the Latin quaternio, the name devised for four sheets of paper folded down the middle so as to form eight leaves. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Whether the explanation was satisfactory I can’t say, as the small boy’s master’s name was called, and he vanished with “two quire” on his youthful head. About London Michael at this moment realized that there was a seventh monk in the quire, and wondered vaguely how he had failed to notice this new-comer before. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Can she be grieved for quire or shrine, Crushed as if by wrath divine? The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes This arrangement in some extant copies has been altered by modern binders, who have divided the sheets, mounted each leaf on a guard, and then gathered them, at their own will, into quires. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touched the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Chator found the Vespers somewhat trying to his curiosity, because owing to the interposition of the curtain he was unable to criticize the behaviour of the monks in quire. Sinister Street, vol. 1 For her, the feathered quires neglect their song: For her, the limes their pleasing shades deny;25 For her, the lilies hang their heads and die. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The word is also a term in printing and bookbinding for the register of the “signatures,” the number of quires and leaves in each quire of a book or MS. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Shorty finally selected a quire of heavy letter paper and a bunch of envelopes, both emblazoned with patriotic and warlike designs in brilliant red and blue. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures There thou, sweet saint, before the quire shalt go, As harbinger of Heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learned below. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 This Science re- quires man to be honest, just, pure; to love his neighbor as himself, and to love God supremely. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 Milton had already made the same allusion to Isaiah, at the close of his Hymn on the Nativity: And join thy voice unto the angel quire, From out his sacred altar touched with hallowed fire.—Wakefield. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Thomas Newton, first parson there, was buried in the quire, in the year 1361, which was the 35th of Edward III. Old and New London Volume I It should however be noted that in the Chatsworth copy the unsigned sheet here placed after quire A is there bound up in the middle. Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge The divisions of the book made by thus folding sheets of paper are called quires, and may consist of four or eight leaves. An Introduction to Shakespeare During my wife’s illness I somewhat lost my head, and entirely lost a great quire of corrected proofs. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) At this stage of proceedings the loosely fastened bundle of quires was not firmly held together and the unprotected folds of the sheets were exposed to wear. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 On the 7th, he saw St. Paul's Church with all the roof off, and the body of the quire fallen into St. Faith's. Old and New London Volume I In this copy the quire signed ¶ is misplaced after the second alphabet, an arrangement also found in the copy in the Cambridge University Library. Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge It appears that the volume of 1100 quarto pages originally consisted of little more than a quire of paper; but Prynne found insuperable difficulties in procuring a licenser, even for this infant Hercules. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors A big knot raise up on Aunt Rachel's head and when Marse 'quire 'bout it, she say she done bump de head. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 One brother, for example, would pick out the vellum, see to the condition of the skins, arrange the quires, and rule them with compass and stylus. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 Tested by the touch, it gives out a crisp, crackling, sharp music, which resounds from no other quires. Old and New London Volume I The quire signed ¶ containing letter to Sir Walter Raleigh signed Edm. Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge Now streets grow throng'd and busy as by day; Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire; Some cut the pipes, and some the engines play, And some more bold mount ladders to the fire. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer There were reams of well-meant advice and quires of threats of violence. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life In the case of a large book, a certain number of quires might be given to each one of a group of copyists. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 The priest he was standing in the quire;— "What gay young gallant comes branking here?" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 A quire of soft brown paper, newspaper will do, and a strap to hold all together, complete the outfit. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer I'm on de Lord's business: He's sent me down dis yeah ribber, same as he sent Moses into Egyp', to 'quire into dis matter an' to preach deliberance to de captive. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 With a triumphant smile, I seize a quire of printed telegraph forms, and proceed to copy in 'a clear, bold hand' from my notes. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba A sheet of vellum was also sometimes inserted in the middle of the quire so that the paper would be stitched between the two vellum sheets. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into extasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 It is bought much cheaper by the ream, than by the quire. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families "You preferred having a sheet of paper the moment you wanted it last week, to the having a quire of paper this week." Practical Education, Volume II Before him is a cedar-wood table, with a bottle of ink, a glass of blotting sand and a quire of stamped paper. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba In order to prevent mistakes in the putting together of the quires a quire mark was put on each quire, sometimes on the first sheet and sometimes on the last sheet. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 When at your prayers you kneel before the altar, Methinks I'm singing with some quire in heaven, So blest I hold me in your company. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 I went to my husband and said quite meekly, 'My Angel Bear, you must be so very good as to give me a quire of your writing-paper to drop sugar-cakes upon.' The Wit of Women Fourth Edition "Oh, but," says the child, "I wanted a sheet of paper very much then, but I did not consider how soon this week would come—I wish I had chosen the quire." Practical Education, Volume II It is that the first quire in the Amiatine Bible, which contains pictures and lists of Biblical books, is actually a portion of a Bible written for Cassiodorus. The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. In the 11th century catch-words were used to show the connection of the quires. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 On Philomel I fixed my whole desire, And listened for the queen of all the quire. Highways and Byways in Surrey I gave him a little box on the ear, stole a quire of paper, and ran off with loud exultation. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition To-morrow there will be another empty stall in that majestic quire which it has taken Time six hundred years to fill…. Anthony Lyveden A great deal of time is employed in attaching the stamp to each sheet of paper, because each has to be separated from the quire or bundle, and the stamp separately applied to it. Cheap Postage This method of binding the quires together is still used in making the best bindings. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 At Earl's Barton the eastern portion was the chancel proper; while the western portion supplied that space for a quire which was not provided in less elongated plans. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church These four cahiers or quires of paper were more likely manuscript notes of St. Louis himself. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities “Or you had better make it a quire while you are about it.” The Wallypug in London Two desks and a quire of paper set him up, where he now sits in state for all corners. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters Care was taken to arrange the sheets in quires in such way that the two pages which were under the eye together should be made on the same side of the skin. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 In St Mary's in the Castle at Leicester, the long and very narrow nave was, as may still be clearly seen, continued eastward without a break into the long and narrow quire and chancel. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church It is contained in a MS. volume, now the property of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, composed of several quires of paper stitched into a parchment cover. The Care of Books She opened her desk, and put a quire of paper ready for any notes she might be tempted to make, and then she began, steadily and laboriously, with a dry-as-dust history of ancient Egypt. Vixen, Volume III. If we canna preach in the kirk, we can sing mass in the quire. The Proverbs of Scotland Bright in idea gleams thy lofty spire, Again I mingle with thy playful quire. My Recollections of Lord Byron The most important feature in the apsidal plan is the provision of the distinctly marked quire space between the nave and chancel. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church I have so much to say that I could fill quires of paper, which renders this sudden pull-up the more provoking. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete The quire proper is under the Tower, a not unusual Benedictine arrangement. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See The lover watched his graceful maid, As mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty’s best attire Was woven still by the snow-white quire. Graded Memory Selections This paper," added the doctor, taking up the half quire, "was purchased in Antwerp. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim At St Pancras, Canterbury, we have noticed the westward prolongation of the apse: at Brixworth a definite presbytery or quire space was planned, on a large scale, between apse and nave. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church Friday, the 7th, early: "A miserable sight of Paul's Church with all the roofs fallen in, and the body of the quire fallen into St. Fayth's; Paul's School also, Ludgate and Fleet Street." Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch The first consisted of two stone walls—the one at the west end of the quire, against which the stalls were returned; the other west of it between the first pair of pillars. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See No leaves had been torn out, but a quire or so of them had apparently become loosened from the threads that held them in place. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Mr. Hamblin confiscated a half quire of the paper, and secured several French exercises written by Captain Kendall, to be used as evidence against him. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim Similarly the quire and chancel of the cruciform church of Holy Trinity at Hull are aisled to their full length: the arrangement, again, is that of a cathedral rather than a parish church. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church Here players shone in bright attire, There dancing women swelled the quire. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse There was a central door, which was called the quire door. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See Haydn tried to rearrange some of them, and failed, and Geminiani blotted quires of paper in attempting to write a second part to the "Broom o' the Cowdenknowes." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science He picked up a quire of it, and a smile of vindictive satisfaction played upon his wrinkled face, as he discovered upon it the identical stamp of the forged note. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim The body of the building, the nave with its aisles, was used by the congregation, the quire of singers occupying a space, enclosed within low walls, at the end nearest the apse. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church Six quires of valuable manuscript notes on various subjects, comprising Latin, Greek, Mathematics, French, and Crambo. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story They will probably find the task more difficult than to blot over whole quires and reams of paper with careless assertions. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual "At the Sign of the Lyre," Good Folk, we present you With the pick of our quire, And we hope to content you! Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II "So far as the kind of paper is concerned," continued Paul, picking up the half quire which the professor had taken from his state-room, "I bought it in Antwerp for a particular purpose." Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim The chancel is short, there are no quire aisles, and the transept apses were rounded externally. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church There are people whose talk has inimitable touches, and whose lives are art, but who never sit down to a quire of foolscap. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] There had been quires of such verses, but she had destroyed all but a few leaves before she started for Littlebath. Miss Mackenzie The nurse brought me two pens, a good sized bottle of ink, several quires of paper and about fifty envelopes. Lalage's Lovers Some of them count out the paper, first into quires, and then into reams and half-reams. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Thus, while three bays and a half of the new arcade belong to the chancel and quire, a bay and a half belong to the nave. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church We sent for the first and second clerks to bring a quire of paper and figure out who won the money and how much each one was entitled to. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi There were also a few English books, several quires of blank paper, pencils, pens, and ink, an almanac, a Bible with a New York imprint, and a "Complete Cook's Manual." Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Carefully cut the threads that hold the quires to the bands, and little by little remove each quire. The Book-Hunter at Home Afterwards he took from his suit-case a quire of ruled foolscap paper and a fountain pen, and, seating himself, sat for some time with his head in his hands deep in thought. The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime Room was in this way secured both for the altar and the quire stalls, for which the ordinary rectangular chancel offered a very restricted space. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church The whole parcel was carefully examined, and the searchers were rewarded by the discovery of nearly a hundred copies of 'The Village Coquettes,' in quires, clean and unfolded. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting If you are buying letter paper for your personal use and you require but three or four hundred sheets in the course of a year, don't bother very much about the price per quire. Dollars and Sense I caused them to be transcribed by the quire, as I had written them, in order to send them to the three commissioners. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon I have suggested that it may have been used as a night quire. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire Its present ragged state suggested a minute examination, which shows that the volume consists of seventeen sets or quires, each of them, with two exceptions, having twenty-two or twenty-four leaves. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) In the midst of the room was a little Japan table, with a quire of gilt paper upon it, and on the paper a silver snuff-box fashioned in the shape of a little book.' The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In Service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before my eyes.’ Obiter Dicta Second Series Agatha was more moved by that trifling circumstance, and by the self-restraint and silence that accompanied it, than she would have been by a whole quire of ordinary love-letters. Agatha's Husband A Novel You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal quires, Unwearied voices, wordless strains: My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's remembered tones. Ionica “You would be not so mush surprised,—did you know dat I comes to here every year, an’ dat Engleesh consul ask me for ’quire about you.” Black Ivory But, great though Queeker’s delight undoubtedly was on this occasion, it was tempered by a soul-harassing care, which drew forth whole quires of poetical effusions to the moon and other celestial bodies. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands As he did so I guessed what had been his mysterious occupation, for he seemed to have covered quires of paper with the closest writing. The Young Fur Traders But the rook has built, and the song-birds quire, And over the faded lea The lark soars glorying, gyre on gyre, And he is the bird for me! Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses He remembered a broken quire of sermon paper in his bedroom; he had used a few sheets of it for notes on Bishop Colenso. Clayhanger Several quires of blank paper, one or two pens, a ruler, and ink, were provided at each of our four desks. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Henry being dead, was buried betwixt the quire and the great altar, near unto his predecessor Adam. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents I am all on fire; Not all the buckets in a country quire Shall quench my rage. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 In order, however, to meet the common hazard of the press, seven quires of each sheet were printed, making about one hundred and sixty-five saleable copies; seven were also taken off on vellum. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 After his decease we searched his house, and could only find one book-cover containing a quire of paper, in which was a collection of rare expressions and grammatical observations.' Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature “About half a quire; then, I suppose, you do not know whether any of that paper was taken while you were away?” Louis' School Days A Story for Boys There was also a great brass candlestick hanging in the middle of the quire, containing a dozen and a half of lights, with another bow candlestick about the brass eagle. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents Thou honour’st Verse, and Verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus’ quire, That tun’st their happiest lines in hymn, or story. Milton's Comus A quire of foolscap, occupying the only clear space on his desk, is melting rapidly beneath his pen. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Captain Battleton seated himself in the armchair which Corny had abandoned, and placed a quire of paper before him as though he intended to take notes of the proceedings. Stand By The Union For the copyright Mundell and Company allowed him only two hundred copies in quires, which yielded him about fifty pounds; but they presented him with twenty-five pounds on the appearance of each successive edition. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The greater pair which stood upon a high loft over the entrance into the quire, was thence thrown down upon the ground, and then stamped and trampled on, and broke in pieces. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents Ye scattered birds that faintly sing, The reliques of the vernal quire! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham He executed these with wonderful facility; it is recorded that he was so rapid in his sketching, that he frequently filled a quire of paper in an evening. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) I take a quire of white paper, linen paper—on any other kind I can imagine nothing—and I write on the first page: How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola The licences cancelled in one district in Scotland, as a result of the recent local veto poll, total exactly half the number of quires of "returns" of last week's Pawkiesheils Gazette. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 Then the souldiers entered the quire, and their first business was to tear in pieces all the common prayer books that could be found. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents This petition was laid on the altar of the country, and quires of paper, placed at the four corners of the altar, received six thousand autographs. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen, in glittering ranks with wings displayed, Harping, in loud and solemn quire, With unexpressive notes to Heaven's new-born Heir. The Hundred Best English Poems The translation of this particular but will take a quire of paper, much ink, and double postage on my part, and a deal of perusive patience on yours, so to proceed. The Garden, You, and I The arching boughs unite between The columns of the temple green, And underneath the wingèd quires Echo about their tunèd fires. Andrew Marvell Oh, Mrs. Musgrave, with a quire of paper and one of your gray goosequills Harry will be preserved from the mischief of doing nothing. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax I ben so long without sarving God, that I shall 'quire all the help I can get in this world and the next. May Brooke There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. The Hundred Best English Poems Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank. Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University It was about a quire of folio paper, written in a large and running hand, very like his own. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 The fragment consists of six vellum leaves, or twelve pages, which apparently formed part of a gathering or quire of the original volume. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Excuse this dirty paper—it is the penultimate half-sheet of a quire. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals He spirits makes his angels quire, His ministers a flaming fire. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires three to eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, the rest 27 lines. Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University I would not wait for paper, and you must forgive half-sheets, instead of a whole celestial quire to my love and praise. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 And as our fragment belongs to the oldest 5 class of uncial manuscripts, the manner of arranging the sheets of quires seems to favor the supposition that two outside leaves are missing. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York I don't 'quire of no money for doin' of a man's duty by a lone 'oman! Ishmael Or, In the Depths Well, there's quite a quire of voices there, Blessing the King's just wisdom for his stern Strong policy with the rebels. Emblems Of Love Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of themselves, form complete quires. Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University The writer then describes the "fine wainscote work" to which this costly "rood and pictures" were fastened on a pillar at the east end of the southern aisle of the quire. Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 The customary quire is a gathering of eight leaves, forming a quaternion proper. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Whole quires of paper he traced with the names of "Nicholas Johnson" and "James Ramsey." Sevenoaks If so, as each quire means twenty-four sheets, there'll he quite a "Surplice Stock." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 Q, as in other languages, is always followed by u, and has a sound which our Saxon ancestors well expressed by cw, as quadrant, queen, equestrian, quilt, inquiry, quire, quotidian. A Grammar of the English Tongue I was not to be discouraged, however, and in the end he showed me into the ante-chapel which is curtained off from the quire. The Altar Steps Now, in the formation of quires, sheets were so arranged that hair side faced hair side, and flesh side flesh side. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York "The fields did laugh, the flowers did freshly spring, The trees did bud and early blossoms bear, And all the quire of birds did sweetly sing, And told that garden's pleasures in their caroling." Elsie's Motherhood Much more goes into the making of a novel, they sarcastically pointed out, than pens, ink, and quires of paper. Prefaces to Fiction In yonder heaven deep the stars are lit For evening service of seraphic quires— Eternal pomp of serried, blazing worlds, The heraldry of God, ere yet Time was. Cromwell Here a Dog dancing on his hams And puppets mov'd by wire, Do far exceed your frisking lambs, Or song of feather'd quire. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 In arranging the books and papers in the office, I found two or three quires of letter-paper stitched together in book form, nearly filled with poetical effusions in Mr. Lincoln's handwriting, and evidently original. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him The whole is then laid between two quires of paper, covered by a weighted board, and left in this condition for about an hour. Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds There is not a quire to be found in Med. Romance Island I took advantage of their halting at this spot, drew forth a quire of drawing-paper, and began to sketch the features of the landscape. Tales of a Traveller To elucidate this would take quires of paper. Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 I have likewise in my cabinet certain quires of paper filled with facts of corruption, mismanagement, cowardice, treachery, avarice, ambition, and the like, with an alphabetical table, to save trouble. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer At such times, a jar of olives may cost eleven or twelve pesos, and a quire of Castilian paper four or five pesos. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century For in their perches they retire, When first the twilight waxeth dim; And every night the sweet-voiced quire Shuts up the daylight with a hymn. Voices for the Speechless When I had finished the letter and took the sheet from the quire, I found on the opposite side of it the portrait which I had just been tracing. Tales of a Traveller Two and one half quires of paper were in time covered with a strange medley, an olla-podrida of student peculiarities. A Collection of College Words and Customs But nobody could climb trees with several quires of Scriptures under his arm. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story Proofs arrived in big envelopes perpetually by post; first in the long, wide-margined galley form, later in the more dignified one of quire and numbered page. Deadham Hard His answer was, "Well, Walter, as my good mother used to say, if the kirk is ower big, just sing mass in the quire." Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character But if any one should desire to tell all the vastness and great marvels of this city, a good quire of stationery would not hold the matter, I trow. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 Just suppose you have a little back room, up stairs, with a table, two chairs, half a quire of paper, an inkstand, two steel pens, Swan's Treatise, and the twenty-ninth volume of Ohio Statutes. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio He was moved to run after the boy and cuff him, but the quires under his arms restrained him and he passed on, keeping a dignified silence. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story From the outside breast pockets of each of them protruded a number of pencils; and, from their lower side pockets, thick memorandum books with gray covers, or stiffly folded quires of foolscap. Round the Block Whatever a planter needed, from a quire of paper to a steam-engine, he ordered his factor to purchase and forward. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation It is said that Frederick the Great went into battle with a vial of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verse in the other. Life's Enthusiasms Were I to attempt writing all I wish to communicate, a week's time and a quire of paper would hardly suffice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 And likewise in Exodus, said Manahem, and he turned over the quires before him. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story With diaries, as Dryden has expressed it, The officious muses came along, A gay, harmonious quire, like angels ever young. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthem clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. From Chaucer to Tennyson The Panorama folds up in a neat portfolio, and occupies little more room than a quire of letter paper. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Let a gentlemanly man, with a gentlemanly style, take of foolscap paper a few quires; stuff them well with high-sounding titles—dukes and duchesses, lords and ladies, ad libitum. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 He gazed at her until a gush of tears blinded his eyes and he turned, blinking them away, to the untidy quires of score paper which he had tried to choose instead. Mary Wollaston And so, within fifteen days, they came to Joyous Gard, and there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him.... Northumberland Yesterday and To-day But I must cut short my feelings on the subject; were I to give them scope they would fill quires; they are as ardent as yours possibly can be. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. This may appear strange at present; but it is a fact, that even our general, when sending out a patrole, would request the officer to try to get him a quire of paper. A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade They praised him so, he always got top honors, the best grades, that he came to re- quire the attention and approval. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel She picked up one of the quires of manuscript, opened it and gazed a while at the many-staved score. Mary Wollaston A roofless quire, a few grass-grown yards of cloister and the like. The Brother of Daphne I could write a quire of paper in his praise, but all I could say of him would give you but a very imperfect idea of him…. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. During my wife's illness I somewhat lost my head, and entirely lost a great quire of corrected proofs. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 Guns re- quire licenses in an increasing number of states. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel She came swiftly toward the piano and stood the big flat quires of score paper on the rack. Mary Wollaston The half-light lent the old quire's walls a rare beauty. The Brother of Daphne But were I to attempt a description of everything I saw at Bartholomew Fair my letter, instead of being a few sheets, would swell to as many quires; so I must close it. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. During my wife’s wretched illness—or I should say the worst of it, for she is not yet rightly well—I somewhat lost my head, and entirely lost a great quire of corrected proofs. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial The neighbors dropped in to in- quire after the sick, and also if Frado was "SERIOUS?" Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there The Count walked to a writing-table near the window, opened his desk, and took from it several quires of paper and a bundle of quill pens. The Woman in White I understand it, that the song be in quire, placed aloft, and accompanied with some broken music; and the ditty fitted to the device. The Essays of Francis Bacon A few strokes of the pencil can convey ideas which quires of writing would fail to impart. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography In the better and wiser tone of feeling with Ovid only expresses in one line to retract in that which follows, I can address these quires— Parve, nec invideo, sine me, liber, ibis in urbem. The Bride of Lammermoor Then I saw that the quotation marks wouldn't do, so I snipped them off, and to make it seem likelier, snipped the whole quire to match. The Innocence of Father Brown Who in soft guise, surrounded by a quire Of virgins melting, not to Vesta's fire, With sparkling eyes, and cheek by passion flush'd, Strikes his wild lyre, while listening dames are hush'd? The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Several quires, placed one over against another, and taking the voice by catches, anthem-wise, give great pleasure. The Essays of Francis Bacon In May and June the woodland quire is in full tune, and given the immense spaces of hollow air, and this curious human ear, one does not see how the void could be better filled. Excursions But I could write a quire without hesitation upon a subject so copious and so beloved as is your praise. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 I think it should be yours,' and handed him a missing quire. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories Again, to be able to sit down at elegant writing-tables and use up a quire of fine notepaper and a packet of envelopes to match, if we chose, how is all this managed? In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Lord bless my stars! my lady," she exclaimed, "this must be the paper—I mean may be the paper—that Mr. Champfort was cutting a quire of, the very day before Miss Portman left town. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 But fate "and wisest Stewart" say No. I can send you 200 pens and six quires of paper immediately, if they will answer the carriage by coach. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 A quire of office note-paper, with his City address upon it, lay ready beneath his hand; but he did not begin to write immediately. Birds of Prey My uncle, William Sneyd, whom I believe you saw at Edgeworthstown, has just been with us for three weeks, and in that time filled five quires of paper with dried plants from the neighbouring rocks. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 There dwells the royal priest, whose inner shrine Conceals his lore; tis there his voice divine Proclaims the laws; and there a cloister'd quire Of holy virgins keep the sacred fire. The Columbiad It is as near poetry as I can hope to get this side the harps and quires. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Twenty-four sheets, no more and no less, are always found in her quires. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 She had a half-penny ready in her hand; he fumbled, striving to detach a single paper from the quire under his arm. Esther Waters At his elbow was the clerk, with a quire of foolscap neatly arranged, and holding a pen idly in his hand. The Old Homestead Q has the sound of English q in the words quire, quick. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Received from her gunner half a barrel of gunpowder and one quire of musket cartridge paper, and 17 fathoms of old rope for lashing beams. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Lady Anne wrote a quire of notepaper off to Sir Brian for that day's post—only she was too late, as she always was. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family He said— "Your mistress seems to use a great deal of paper; it was only a day or two ago that I served you with four quires." Esther Waters Oh, Warton! to thy soothing shell, Stretch'd remote in hermit cell, Where the brook runs babbling by, For ever I could listening lie; And catching all the muses' fire, Hold converse with the tuneful quire. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas Trixy's been giving you a quarter quire crossed sheets of that, has she? A Terrible Secret Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or story. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 "Who will pay more?" demanded the quire, throwing himself back in his chair. The Store Boy Two desks and a quire of paper set him up, where he now sits in state for all comers. Character Writings of the 17th Century What Cherubim has left the quire in heaven And warbles peacefull Anthems to the earth? A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 My principal mathematics on the quires are Optics. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy To White Hall and to Chappell, which being most monstrous full, I could not go into my pew, but sat among the quire. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Divine Matilda's angel did appear, Deck'd like a vestal ready for heaven's quire, And to this earthly trunk will not come near. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 The quire is mean, the service was not well read. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) The table was covered by an old green tablecloth, stained with ink, three or four inkstands had been brought in, and a quire of paper was scattered about. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness On the same page of my quires on which this is mentioned, there is a great list of apparatus to be constructed for Lucasian Lectures, notes of experiments with Atwood's Machine, &c. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy My silver standish was placed upon it; a quire of gilt paper was before me. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 Books for Children He is an altar having wine poured upon it; having many quires singing around; he is a clean chalice with ale in it; he is bronze, white, shining, he is gold. The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish And de offercers ob de law tuk possession ob de castle to 'quire inter who was de murderers ob de poor gal. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths As he did so, I guessed what had been his mysterious occupation, for he seemed to have covered quires of paper with the closest writing. The Young Fur Traders On my quires I find various schemes for graduating thermometers for pendulum experiments. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy He raised a riding quire he carried, and seemed about to lash it into Dave's face. Cowboy Dave A high heaven, high and fiery, there is above all the rest; highest of all it is, having within it the rolling of the skies, and the labour of music, and quires of angels. The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish Her, sly Cellenius loved: on her would gaze, As with swift step she form'd the running maze: To her high chamber from Diana's quire, The god pursued her, urged, and crown'd his fire. The Iliad He went straight back to good Mrs. Halliss's with his discovery whirling in his head, stopping only by the way at the stationer's, to invest in half a quire of white foolscap. Philistia I worked well, upon my quires, the figure of Saturn supposed homogeneous as affected by the attraction of his ring, and the figure of the Earth as heterogeneous, and the Calculus of Variations. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy The sight also of algebraic characters pursuing each other across quires of paper, like the grotesque forces of some broken, impish army, filled her indolent mind with a wondering admiration that was akin to fear. Stella Fregelius This was the summary; the various contemptuous sarcasms intermixed would fill, and very unpleasantly, a quire. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 This he opened with a curious key at his watch-chain, and laying back a flap revealed a quire of foolscap covered with close but quite clear writing. The Ball and the Cross Fill yourself another glass, and I'll describe it all to you, for it will be of infinite consequence that a true narrative of this meets the public eye—they really are quire ignorant of it. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 The clerestory windows of the quire very large. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy We banish him the quire of gods, That droops agen: Then all are men, For here's not one but nods. The Poetaster I have often observed in quires that at certain notes of the organ the deske would have a tremulation under my hand. The Natural History of Wiltshire "Will the gentleman be kind enough to help himself," says Mr. Benson, passing a quire upon the table at which Mr. Grabguy sits. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter Adieu! my dear child, I am yours ever, from a quire of the largest foolscap to a vessel of the smallest gilt. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 But the best thing about the quire is the wooden stall-work, of early decorated, very beautiful. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy "Then you should have brought a ream instead of a quire." It Is Never Too Late to Mend His body lies in the vault belonging to his family in the quire of Our Ladies Church in Salisbury. The Natural History of Wiltshire Would Stockdale help him out of this dilemma, by taking up the quires and duly ushering the book into the world? Percy Bysshe Shelley You certainly don't love me better than I do you; and yet if our loves were to b@ sold by the quire, you would have by far the more magnificent stock to dispose of. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Other subjects on my quires are: Theory of musical concords, many things relating to trigonometry and trigonometrical tables, achromatic eye-pieces, equation to the surface bounding the rays that enter my left eye, experiments on percussion. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy During this discussion Mr. Eden had not been idle; he went into Robinson's empty cell and coolly placed there another inkstand, pen and quire in the place of those Hawes had removed. It Is Never Too Late to Mend Every quire of a penny paper sold, every meeting, every hundred votes which are won at a Socialist election, represent an amount of energy and sacrifices of which no outsider has the faintest idea. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution By degrees the roll form was abandoned for the codex or book form, as being more convenient, the leaves being stitched into gatherings or quires; but for a long time both forms were used together. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries Now a ream, as used by printers, consists of 21 1/2 quires, or 516 sheets. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures My quires, at this time, abound with suggestions for lectures and examinations. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy "What! half a crown for a book no thicker than a quire of paper?" It Is Never Too Late to Mend This is the last sheet of a whole quire I have written since I came to town. The Journal to Stella Lord Sherbrooke, too, was looking very grave, and was thoughtfully scribbling unmeaning lines with a pen and ink on some quires of paper before him. The King's Highway You all wish me to interest myself in German, but it is such a barbarous language, that I often have quires of writing sent me, of which I do not understand a word. Frederick the Great and His Family The prefer- ence of mortal mind for a certain method creates a demand for that method, and the body then seems to re- 179:15 quire such treatment. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures It is not ordered by "karrás" or quires; but is written upon 48 sets of 4 double leaves. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 I prefer the exercise book, a quire of paper bound in a cover. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography So to my lodging back, and took out my wife and people to show them the town and church; but they being at prayers, we could not be shown the quire. The Diary of Samuel Pepys In fact, she had plenty of sense, if only she had ever used it for herself, instead of for the little ladies she drew on her quires of paper. Countess Kate It re- quires the spirit of our blessed Master to tell a man his 571:9 faults, and so risk human displeasure for the sake of doing right and benefiting our race. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures "Curious not the least are we if our intents you make or mar, If you quire to our old tune, If the City stage still passes, if the weirs still roar afar." Wessex Poems and Other Verses Then did the Quick pursue the Dead By crystal Froom that crinkles there; And still the viewless quire ahead Voiced the old holy air. Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses As for Keogh, he was figuring in his mind and on quires of Government letter-heads a scheme that dwarfed the art of misrepresenting the human countenance upon tin. Cabbages and Kings “I never in my life seed a quire go into a study to have it out about the playing and singing,” pleaded Leaf; “and I should like to see it just once!” Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school It would take a quire of paper to give you anything like a full account of it, and I therefore only propose a brief outline. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 A lazy chit whose fingers tire with penning a page in reply to a quire! Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 Each headstone of the quire, each mound, Confronted them beneath the moon; But no more floated therearound That ancient Birth-night tune. Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses I suppose he was so poor he couldn't afford to buy a quire of paper. Roundabout Papers “By the way, Fancy, do you know why our quire is to be dismissed?” Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Eight quires, like this sample, gilt-edged... it must be exactly like the sample. War and Peace To her faithful eye were addressed those formidable quires which issued forth from Mervyn Hall, on the wings of the post, while Miss Mannering was a guest there. Guy Mannering Of other singers, the latest of the heavenly quire, it is invidiously said that they build shrines to Blue China and other ceramic abominations of the Philistine, and worship the same in their rooms. Oxford She went and fetched a quire of paper, and borrowed his pencil and wrote them down. They and I Time was—long and merry ago now!—when not one of the varmits was to be heard of; but it served some of the quires right. Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school A soft, bright, autumn morning, mild as spring, coaxing a wandering robin to come and sing to me, loud as a quire of birds, out of the thinned trees of the Abbey yard. John Halifax, Gentleman And dropping slowly as the dew On grasses that the winds renew In urge of flooding fire, And softly as the hushing boughs The gentle airs of dawn arouse To cradle morning's quire. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets It comes not from the tuneful quire; It comes not from the feasting peers. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 What a fearful state of things would ensue, even in our day, were the supply to be reduced but a quire! The Lumley Autograph “Give it him well; the quire can’t be insulted in this manner!” Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school The yard covered with burnt quires of paper, the loss in which article was immense. Life of William Carey I do not know what I desire When summer nights are dark and still, When the wind's many-voiced quire Sleeps among the muffled branches. Crome Yellow No time for them to mark or him to feel Those inward stings; for clarion, flute, and lyre, And the rich voices of a countless quire, Burst on the ear in one triumphant peal. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 At last, just as Russell had resumed her office at the toilet, came Isidore, a little before twelve, coiffure and all, which was so pretty that I quire forgave him all his sins. Letters from England But for a quire to lose the treble, why, my sonnies, you may so well lose your . Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Nor do the Goddesses the grove disdain, But chiefly here the Muses quire and sing, And here they love to weave their dancing ring, With Aphrodite of the golden rein. Rhymes a la Mode Since then I have mended four pens and bought a quire of letter-paper at the village shop. After Dark Stationers used to let out on hire parts of books or quires. Old English Libraries Madam, myself have lim'd a bush for her, And plac'd a quire of such enticing birds That she will light to listen to the lays, And never mount to trouble you again. King Henry VI, Part 2 Why, souls, the parson set up a barrel-organ on his own account within two years o’ the time I spoke, and the old quire went to nothing.” Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school His dingy white collar and cravat had died the death of old linen, and had gone to their long home at the paper-maker's, to live again one day in quires at a stationer's shop. No Name You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal quires, Unwearied voices, wordless strains: My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's remember'd tones. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Thus increased her torments are By the cruel, heartless quire; And with arms outstretching far Leaps she on the glowing pyre. The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres And there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and sang and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him. Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 “You, ready to die for the quire,” said Bowman reproachfully, “to stick up for the quire’s enemy, William!” Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school A health to James our royal King; Heaven approves the offering, Resounding in chorus; Let our sacrifice aspire, Richest gems perfume the fire, Angels and the sacred quire Have led the way before us. Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 “One Christmas—years agone now, years—I went the rounds wi’ the Weatherbury quire. Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school If this were but granted, who would not desire To dub himself one of Apollo's own quire? Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 |
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