The principal cause was the freequartering of soldiers in the houses of the Protestants.
When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent himself stoutly to his work.
He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.
Where the rhetoric of the former was ineffectual, the forciblyquartering the latter upon the houses, and threats of banishment and fines were tried.
He accordingly forbade the quartering of the imperial soldiers in his territories, and announced his firm determination to persist in his warlike preparations.
The practice of quartering his soldiers in them was by this time accepted as a necessary evil.
The rest of the reinforcements he despatched to Stockholm, quartering them in his different camps, and then discharged all of the Swedish peasants except the young unmarried men.
It charged the king with appointing German and Danish officers to the highest positions in the state, and with quartering foreign soldiers in the towns and villages till the inhabitants were constrained to flee.
As to quartering in the monasteries, the conservative element prevailed, the Cabinet decreeing that it was not advisable to fill the monasteries with horse and men.
The eye naturally divides a line or space into halves and quarters, and for this reason the dash lines have been designated for quartering the main lines, and the dotted lines for quartering the squares thus formed.
Claverhouse is accused of oppression by excessive fines and illegal quartering of troops, of malversation, and so forth; but of taking man's life unlawfully there is no single word.
Zeb guessed so, by seeing the other, at some distance before him, riding to and fro, in transverse stretches, like a pointer quartering the stubble in search of a partridge.
Surely he wouldn't object to a quartering with the Hancocks?
To avoid these errors a quartering machine is employed, such as shown in Fig.
Three times he jerked it with a peculiar, quartering pull, a curbing that might have been ineffective by a man of ordinary strength, but with the incomprehensible might of the great forearm behind it was really terrible punishment.
By going in a quartering direction he was able to approach within two hundred yards of the house without emerging into the moonlight.
In all probability it is simply a quartering of two signs.
The KING'S HEAD AND LAMB, an ale-house in Upper Thames Street, is evidently a quartering of two signs.
The Bell occurs in innumerable combinations, most of which seem to have no particular meaning, but simply to arise from the old custom of quartering signs.
Several mock suns were observed, and on December 18th an eclipse of the moon occurred, during which this luminary was surrounded by a transparent circle, within which was a cross quartering the moon.
The quarteringof troops on the people was authorized.
A wind quartering from the shore had smoothed the ocean into the semblance of a limitless and placid lake.
The mainsail had been hauled in, and the course of the sloop changed, quartering in toward the shore.
It was about this time that the menacing instructions to the governor in regard to compliance with the act for quartering troops arrived.
When the assembly of New York met in the latter part of May, 1767, the house voted a supply for the quartering of the King's troops, which came up to the sum which had been prescribed by parliament.
England had determined to send troops to America, and required that the expense of quartering these troops should be borne by the colonies.
He swung the smoke poles till the vent was quartering down, then hoarsely whispered, "How's that?
Illustration: 2nd set up and bind other six poles] "Ye swing the flaps by changing the poles till they is quartering down the wind.
Although after the advance of the French army in pursuit, the theatre of war was soon removed farther and farther from Gotha; yet the quartering of troops upon the inhabitants was no less continuous.
The reason of the deficit in the receipts was doubtless the quartering of Russian troops in the neighbourhood, which kept both the town and country residents from attending the festival.
When the quarteringbill was before the lords, Chatham returned to parliament.
A third bill ordered that any one accused of a capital offence should, if the act was done in the execution of the law in Massachusetts, be tried in Nova Scotia or Great Britain; and a fourth provided for the quartering of troops.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quartering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
