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Example sentences for "quarter past"

  • This morning I rose a little before five, and attended a prayer meeting from a quarter past five, to a quarter past six.

  • This evening, from six to a quarter past ten, we conversed with inquirers.

  • The President ordered the horses got up just before the rain commenced; and after the storm ceased, we started onward at a quarter past ten.

  • At a quarter past one we formed our encampment on the east banks of a stream about a rod wide, two feet deep and swift current.

  • At a quarter past eight we proceeded onward, found good level traveling, the day cool and pleasant.

  • Let the oven be hot, and, at a quarter past twelve, remove the paper.

  • It was now a quarter past twelve, and one thing that Marta must be taught was punctuality.

  • At a quarter past, put white onions on to boil in boiling water; and potatoes.

  • Settled for to-morrow at quarter past one at Mr. Blodgett's.

  • It was a quarter past when I finally got into one; and the driver told me that it would take half an hour to go from thence to Upper Brook Street; so that I was likely to exceed the license implied in Mr. Milnes's invitation.

  • At a quarter past one I was duly on hand at Mr. Blodgett's to receive the deputation from the Chamber of Commerce.

  • At a quarter past three I found them both seated in the stalls, witnessing a morning performance, at which a Miss Madge Robertson was playing in a piece called A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.

  • Manchester, the royal mail, every morning, at a quarter past ten.

  • Nottingham, the royal mail, every morning, at a quarter past nine.

  • Sheffield, the royal mail, every morning, at a quarter past nine.

  • The boats reached the rock at a quarter past 10 o’clock A.

  • This morning the boats reached the rock at 8 o’clock; the work commenced exactly at a quarter past 8, and at half-past 11, the water again began to overflow the parts on which the artificers were at work.

  • Last night at a quarter past eleven I was aroused by the report that a large ship was close on board of us.

  • At a quarter past eight o'clock the first business is a motion for adjournment on an urgent matter of public business, in the occasional instances where leave has been obtained at the afternoon sitting to make it.

  • Opposed private business is not taken up at all on Friday, and if not finished by three o'clock on other days is postponed to a quarter past eight on such day as the Chairman of Ways and Means may determine.

  • Lock-up was not till a quarter past six--six o'clock nominally, but the doors were always left open till a quarter past.

  • He emerged from the room of detention at a quarter past four.

  • I placed myself in communication with the mayor, telegraphed to him at a quarter past twelve, A.

  • I had telegraphed for him to come at quarter past two o'clock on Monday morning.

  • I arrived here the same day, about a quarter past one, I suppose--Liberty street.

  • About a quarter past four I went towards the inn, and looked round to see whether the atmosphere would permit me to have a free prospect to the S.

  • Before one, we arrived at a little hut where the guide lives; and after having him called up, and loaded with a basket of bread and milk, and a tin box for specimens, we began our march at a quarter past one.

  • That would have been about a quarter past eleven, I should say; I had noticed eleven striking from the church.

  • On that Sunday night I was taking my before-bedtime constitutional, having set out from the hotel about a quarter past ten.

  • Very well; and he rang for you that night about a quarter past eleven.

  • She simply relates what she saw, and declares that the man who is on the prisoner's bench is not the same who drew the curtains at a quarter past five.

  • He did not go to Caffie's at a quarter past five.

  • He had already given a startled glance at the clock on the chimney piece, and had found it was a quarter past three in the morning.

  • At a quarter past seven, by the cuckoo clock on the chimneypiece, there came a knock at the outer door of the room which opened on the street.

  • A number of the choicest spirits of the neighborhood, some in work, some out of it, but one and all fired with real enthusiasm for a noble game, gathered with a football about a quarter past twelve.

  • It was much to her credit that she did go up at a quarter past nine.

  • As I went upstairs at a quarter past five to light my gas, some one came behind me and rang Monsieur Caffie's bell, and rapped three or four times at equal distances, which is the signal to open the door.

  • But as he should not leave until a quarter past eleven, he had plenty of time.

  • About a quarter past five, a few minutes more or less.

  • But I left my lodge at a quarter past five to light the gas on the stairs; that took me twenty minutes, because I am stiff in my joints, and during this time some one might have gone up and down the stairs without my seeing them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aesthetic experience; ferrous sulphate; forest reserve; many libraries; moderate weather; other races; quarter after; quarter hours; quarter mile; quarter miles; quarter ounce; quarter pound; quarter pounds; quarter section; quarter sessions; quarter teaspoonful; quarterly meeting; quartern loaf; quarters inches; silver nitrate; solid matter; steam chest; vegetable diet; velvety black; water wheel; worship them