But within the quarter-hour their peace was broken. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
Try his cell again several times for a quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Bill thrice in a quarter-hour, Mr. Wrenn was beatified. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
NGUYEN: Here's a look at top stories at the quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2004] Reference
Within a quarter-hour he knew that Sssuri was not going wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
That's leaving a quarter-hour safety limit, which I never mention. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...]
Big Ben strikes the quarter-hour with the familiar Westminster chimes. From Wordnik.com. [Big Ben] Reference
Fine ales, good food, we change the horses and leave in a quarter-hour!. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
There it said, clear as could be, whose turn it was at each quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
Its been almost a quarter-hour since I sent him with the brandy balloons. From Wordnik.com. [The House at Riverton] Reference
Percy rowed for a quarter-hour longer, dread plucking at his heart-strings. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
I switched it off when the quarter-hour time signal chimed over the audio band. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Merchants]
Will leave the monitors running, of course, and will call on every quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [2061 Odyssey Three]
I wait to hear Big Ben sound the hour, then another quarter-hour for good measure. From Wordnik.com. [The House at Riverton] Reference
Blast Roger anyway, he thought, forgetting the all-important quarter-hour check-in. From Wordnik.com. [Danger in Deep Space] Reference
The minutes became longer and after an eternity the chimes sounded the quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
He read for a while and found himself glancing at the clock about every quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
"You failed to make your quarter-hour check to the traffic-control center, I believe?". From Wordnik.com. [Danger in Deep Space] Reference
A quarter-hour later the sound of his exhaust had died away in the fog to the northward. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Within the next quarter-hour, twenty of the men had ushered in six hundred seat-holders. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
Nevertheless, when the county leader had gone Shelby gave a diligent quarter-hour to his bankbook. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Mucor nodded, and we sat side-by-side in silence for what I felt sure was at least a quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
Within the next quarter-hour a stag party had taken over the apartment, several of them in uniform. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
Like I said, you can see it every -- it's moving several inches now, it seems like, every quarter-hour. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference
So it was a quarter-hour of fizzed-out bromides that the Governor discharged while the crowd jeered on. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Cooper: Arnold Gets A Kollyfornia Kreamin'] Reference
Within less than a quarter-hour Drew could have laughed wryly at his past satisfaction in his prowess as a scout. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
The chimes rang the quarter-hour and then the half, and he decided to wake May-may and Ah Gip in a quarter of an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
It was a breech birth, which accounted for the difficulty, and the next quarter-hour was hair-raising for all concerned. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
As he had suspected, there was one, long abandoned, in a Node-grove a quarter-hour further on by elvensteed's swift pace. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
They waited the usual quarter-hour beyond the appointed time, and then the door opened and Kannish and his team walked in. From Wordnik.com. [The Fearful Summons]
Fawu, which called the strike, was demanding a 12 percent across the board wage increase, 43 and three quarter-hour pay for. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Even with only a few minutes of a scant quarter-hour to spare, I would not have any one miss seeing the cloister, from which the. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
Wait, lie still - and observe this time-glass, which tells the quarter-hour ... its sands must run out before yours, do you hear?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
Wait, lie still — and observe this time-glass, which tells the quarter-hour … its sands must run out before yours, do you hear?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]
He spent the next quarter-hour showing me his book, a soft-covered, locally printed volume of saccharine cliches and first-rate graphics. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
The result was tangible, but he had paid for it with the most abasing quarter-hour of his life, and Shelby, too, craved another atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
It might well be a better drama if it were 15 minutes shorter, but no one will wish to have a quarter-hour less of Ms. Redgrave's presence. From Wordnik.com. [In Athens, Gaining Insight Into Modern Iran] Reference
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