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Example sentences for "another quarter"

  • Another quarter of an hour elapsed; and, to the infinite joy of Tom Rain, he suddenly beheld two female figures, well muffled in shawls and furs, emerge from the obscurity at a short distance.

  • Sir, are the arrows which appear to be aimed by the senator from Missouri at the humble organ of the Committee on Public lands, who reported this bill, intended to inflict a wound in another quarter?

  • I took occasion to protest, in the surprised impulse of the moment, against the idea of putting restrictions on liberty in one quarter of the Union, in retaliation of the attempt to limit the spread of slavery in another quarter.

  • The Austrians having rashly calculated that Asperne and Essling must needs be the object of the next contest, as of the preceding, they were taken almost unawares by Napoleon's appearance in another quarter.

  • Napoleon had suggested to Talleyrand, minister of foreign affairs, some months before, the propriety of making an effort against England in another quarter of the globe; i.

  • Profiting by the disorder which such an event never failed to occasion in their whole line, I repeated the attack, with similar success, in another quarter, still with my whole force.

  • Beaten back, this intrepid general flew to another quarter, where a second party of the enemy were preparing to scale the walls.

  • While Gustavus Adolphus thus maintained his superiority within the empire, fortune, in another quarter, had been no less favourable to his ally, the Elector of Saxony.

  • But Ibrahim Pasha, whose successes in Greece had induced Canning to interfere, had already disclosed a new phase of that question by successes gained in another quarter.

  • Having thus secured the province of Leon, and the great route from Bayonne to Madrid, he was advancing on Galicia when his progress was arrested by disaster in another quarter.

  • The spirit of the troops had been depressed by their recent failure, and was soon completely cowed by the news of a great disaster in another quarter.

  • At his suggestion the animals were allowed to approach quietly and to kneel down and inspect and try the structure upon which they were to trust themselves; and in another quarter of an hour they were all three safely landed.

  • In another quarter of a minute they would have opened fire, when an officer of the 4th came running up and stopped them.

  • In another quarter of an hour Penn's battery came down to us and opened fire, and the steel shells soon drove the enemy up the road into the fortress.

  • Enjolras shook his head and replied: "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any cartridges left in the barricade.

  • Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be too late.

  • The loss of a predominating influence over Armenia was thus compensated, or more than compensated, within a few years, by a gain of a similar kind in another quarter.

  • The one real failure that can be laid to his charge was in another quarter, and involved no military, but only a political blunder.

  • But let me tell those who are more interested in sustaining them than myself, that the danger which threatens them lies not here, but in another quarter.

  • His departure, however, was at length determined by startling news out of another quarter, namely, of rebellion in Ireland.

  • The mischief, though stopped there, soon showed itself in another quarter.

  • The preacher, having broken the ice, he renewed his attempt in another quarter--the council chamber of the city.

  • Another quarter of an hour passed; no one came to turn him out.

  • Braddy, who as usual felt and looked extinguished when Pembury made fun of him, retired sulkily, and the editor of the Dominican thereupon turned his attack on another quarter.

  • But the Fifth were interfered with in another quarter, and in a way which caused them to drop their chimney-pots completely.

  • My Lords, I now ask you for a short time to quit Europe and to visit Asia, and consider the labours of the Congress in another quarter of the world.

  • Nearly at the same time we performed the same operation in another quarter.

  • He gave orders to his companions to set out without loss of time, and in another quarter of an hour they were on their way.

  • Another quarter of an hour brought them within the shelter of the noble trees, which extended their network of delicious shade overhead.

  • Another quarter of an hour passed away, and Roylance exclaimed-- "Can there be any other place where they could land?

  • In another quarter of an hour the other would be ready, he knew, and then his chance would be gone.

  • I could have wished to remain and see this battle for the succession fairly fought," he said; "but a battle of a different sort calls us in another quarter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another adverb; another boat; another city; another group; another hand; another lady; another month; another piece; another poem; another prophet; another river; another side; another similar; another song; another time; another type; another variety; another way; another while; breed girl; daylight next; later development; more rarely; nobody knows; our side; tell himself