There was a central door, which was called the quire door. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
In the quire is a high tumbe, of one of them porturid with his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
But the best thing about the quire is the wooden stall-work, of early decorated, very beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography]
The wood worke in the quire is very ffine. From Wordnik.com. [Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary] Reference
I was still trying to decipher the language (what the heck is a "quire"??) when it was followed quickly by. From Wordnik.com. [Pam's House Blend - Front Page] Reference
At least a dozen clergy assisted in quire. From Wordnik.com. [Candlemas in Connecticut] Reference
To black the last quire of a ream of 'white laid.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
Before her on a reading-desk, lay many a well-filled quire. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference
I have suggested that it may have been used as a night quire. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
AND when Sir Ector heard such noise and light in the quire of. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Lanthorn in ye quire are vastly high and delicately painted, and fine. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
“By the way, Fancy, do you know why our quire is to be dismissed?”. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference
To become a leader in e-commerce may re-quire a major acquisition by AOL. From Wordnik.com. [You've Got Questions] Reference
Parliment law 'quire you to' dress de chair to git permission to leave de hall '. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
But for a quire to lose the treble, why, my sonnies, you may so well lose your. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference
If so, as each quire means twenty-four sheets, there'll he quite a "Surplice Stock.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892] Reference
Two desks and a quire of paper set him up, where he now sits in state for all corners. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Cromwelle souldyers when they pul'd down all the seats in the quire, April 22th, 1643. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
The monks formed up in rows behind him, where the quire of the new cathedral would be. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
He has just come in with his glue-pot, his quire of green paper, and his great scissors. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They snuffed the candles in the quire stalls as they went, but they left one burning on the altar. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Carefully cut the threads that hold the quires to the bands, and little by little remove each quire. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
HAMMER: And obviously, you guys had quire a workout in the production of putting this thing together. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 3, 2006] Reference
Are a bad society, and yet a company of good fellows, that roar deep in the quire, deeper in the tavern. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
At his elbow was the clerk, with a quire of foolscap neatly arranged, and holding a pen idly in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Were I to attempt writing all I wish to communicate, a week's time and a quire of paper would hardly suffice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
After the first week the girl herself materially assisted the linguists in their efforts to ac-quire her speech. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
Commissary's inkstand was a coffee-cup without an handle, and his book of entries a quire of dirty writing-paper. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Now give me a quire of blotting-paper, pens, nibs (puntitas), paper-fasteners and the stamp-rack (porta-estampillas). From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
He got up from the coffin and walked, with a new lightness in his step, to the quire and took an empty place at the back of the stalls. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University] Reference
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