This process is called quartering, and ensures that the remaining portion is "average quality". From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
This method is called quartering (fig. 147) and ensures that the final sample is representative of the bulk of the clay. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
The last wave came "quartering" and threw a hatful of water into. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Granger's Fortunes] Reference
"Kata 'al-'Arba'," or cutting off the four members, equivalent to our "quartering," was also a popular penalty. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
You mean more brutal than quartering which is slowly disenbowling a person untill they beg for death under any condition. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
It was engaged in hunting, and, with its nose to the snow, was running in zig-zag lines, "quartering" the ground like a pointer dog. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference
There were dozens of them "quartering" the ground in every direction in search of their own prey; and they left not an inch of it unsearched. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
In another quartering is the spectacle of. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
For quartering large bodies of armed men among us. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader] Reference
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Clare quartering Despenser and impaling France and England. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
He proposed quartering troops in the city "for a few days.". From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
A fourth Act re-established the system of quartering troops. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
He took her to his quartering-house, his landlady looked ben. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
She was quartering the wind, until a sudden lull in the gale came. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference
Lieutenant Lindsay showed him his orders for quartering there, under. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference
"This accounts for the mace in the De Chenier quartering," thought the. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
She saw me at the same instant and bounded away, quartering up the hill in my direction. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Brotherton impaled with Bouchier, quartering Louvain, supported with a lion and an eagle. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 575, November 10, 1832] Reference
Their punishments continued to be most barbarous, quartering alive being a common practice. From Wordnik.com. [Roumania Past and Present] Reference
The practice of quartering his soldiers in them was by this time accepted as a necessary evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
York for failing to comply with an Act of 1765 authorizing quartering of troops in the colonies. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
The king then quartering his guests in the sacrificial apartments retired into his private chambers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
It was not seen again, and still more beams winked on, began to search, systematically quartering the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
An Act was adopted for quartering and billeting the Militia and His Majesty's troops on certain occasions. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
When dry the quartering should support the model with horns attached, and all parts should be immovably rigid. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Act for quartering and billetting the soldiery; and the eleventh granted for the clerks of parliament £88 1s. 9d. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
This letter is occupied mainly with the various questions touching the introduction and the quartering of the troops. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
The small boat came nearer and nearer, gliding from side to side of the frozen river to make distance against a quartering wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats] Reference
She had the kindness to show that I was not disagreeable; she however had not a drop of noble blood, not even a single quartering. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
He reached the sheaf-pile only just in time, for the brown owl was still abroad, quartering the field with deadly certainty of purpose. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
The dignity of the Fatimid age was lowered by Saladin's quartering the officers of his army in the magnificent palaces, while he occupied the house of the Viziers. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
No minister would, however, adopt a principle which would so effectually have put an end to his own arbitrary power of quartering his friends and relations on the public. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Czech manifestoes were confiscated, and meetings stopped at the slightest appearance of disorder; and the riots were punished by quartering soldiers upon the inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
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