No matches were found on Harry; but in his jacket pocket, carefully enclosed in a piece of brown paper, were found the four quarters of a dollar given to him by Mr. Nason.
He could not afford to pay one of his quarters for a night's lodging at the tavern opposite.
Grant's first care, therefore, was so to employ all the subsidiary forces in all quarters of the South as to prevent the sending of any reinforcements to Lee.
As it was, they endured daily greater and greater privations and sufferings before the summer of 1833 at last enabled them finally to leave their winter-quarters and go by land to Prince Regent's and Barrow Straits.
Some of the staff set off to pay a visit to the Rajah Peters de Banacassi, whose residence was not more than three-quarters of a league from Coupang.
The walls, which were of cut marble, are entirely crumbled away, but their length over three quarters of a league, is still discernible.
The explorers took up their quartersfor the winter amongst the Mandans, on the 1st of November.
Add three quarters of a pound of white powdered sugar to a pound of fruit; put in the kernels; mix all together, and boil for twenty minutes: well skim when it begins to boil.
One pound of potatoes, three quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of sugar, eight eggs, a little mace, and nutmeg.
One pound of fine flour well dried and sifted, three quarters of a pound of fine sugar, also well dried and sifted.
Blanch one pound of almonds as white as you can; take three quarters of a pound of fine white sugar well pounded; beat them up together with a little rose-water, to prevent the almonds from oiling.
To a pound of currants put threequarters of a pound of lump sugar.
Take ten eggs and the whites of five; whisk them well, and beat in one pound of finely sifted sugar, and three quarters of a pound of flour: the flour to be put in just before the cake is going to the oven.
Take the great white plums before they begin to turn, when they are at their full growth, and to every pound of plums allow three quarters of a pound of fine sugar.
Into one pound and a half of flour work three quarters of a pound of butter; add three quarters of a pound of treacle, two ounces of sugar, half an ounce of ginger, a little orange-peel beaten and sifted.
Take two pounds of currants and half a pound of raspberries: to every pound of fruit add three quarters of a pound of good moist sugar.
I took three-quarters of a mile of rope and fastened one end of it around the waist of a guide, and told him to go find the road, while the caravan waited.
A landslip occurred three quarters of a century ago, on the route from Arth to Brunnen, which was a formidable thing.
Our first emotion was deep, unutterable gratitude, our next was a foolish rage, born of the suspicion that possibly the hotel had been visible three-quarters of an hour while we sat there in those cold puddles quarreling.
His own quarters were comfortable enough, but when the weather was cold, the family were sure to have his company--nothing could keep him out of the house.
So we left the valley and took quarters at the Schloss Hotel, on the hill, above the Castle.
We waded along for three-quarters of a mile, and finally took up a position in an unsheltered beer-garden directly opposite the Castle.
These being all rejected, I reflected awhile, and sarcastically suggested brickbats at three-quarters of a mile.
Even in the narrowest and poorest and most ancient quarters of Frankfort neat and clean clothes were the rule.
He came back presently and said his principal was charmed with the idea of brickbats at three-quarters of a mile, but must decline on account of the danger to disinterested parties passing between them.
If you're going to improvise a new cow duet, I wish you wouldn't take the fore-quarters by surprise next time.
Cabbages in most places are looking well, though in some quarters I notice an epidemic of worms.
The foul man-eating dogs slaughtered royal serfs and burnt two quarters of the suburb to the ground!
From his friends in highquarters came hints of the same friction, but he knew that the one demand Winslow had laid down was being observed: the secret of the mysterious fuel would remain with us.
The soldiers found their quarters narrow, damp, and very uncomfortable.
Nevertheless, the attacks were constantly beaten off, and at close quarters our men did great execution with the bayonet.
The students went to the head-quarters of one of the grenadier regiments, and urged them not to join in the march.
As Hermannstadt was at once the military head-quarters of the Austrian army and the chief town of the Saxon settlement in Transylvania, this was a direct attack both on the Imperial power, and on the influence of the Saxons.
You probably know from other quarters the intensity of this feeling.
States of the Union for three quarters of that year.
There's always four quarters to the compass, even when Abe Hawley thinks he owns the world and has a mortgage on eternity.
By far the greater number had their money advised at a cost of five to fifteen per cent, usually ten per cent, as against the three-quarters per cent which would probably represent a maximum of loss by exchange to-day to tourists.
Carnac and Stonehenge were no doubt a long way out of their way, but the dolmen of Bagneux was no more than three-quarters of a mile from Saumur, where many of them stayed for weeks, or even months.
The stream itself was generally three-quarters of a mile in width, with a current of five miles per hour, water three and a half to four feet, and of a chalky whiteness.
I was indeed kindly offered quarters for the winter at Brown's Hole; but if I accepted them, I should find it impossible to return to the States the next year.
He was accordingly shot, his hair burnt off, and his fore quartersboiled and eaten!
The livers, hearts, heads, and the fore quarters of one of them, made us a filthy supper.
We went home, and Matteo found waiting for him a message from Checco, bidding him leave the inn and take up his quarters with me at the Palazzo Orsi.
The square was growing fuller every moment; the shops had been closed, and from allquarters came swarming artisans and apprentices.
From Point Aux Gaul Shag Rock, to the Islands of Lamelin is West three quarters N.
The two Islands of Lamelin (which are but low) lie off the West Point of the Bay of the same Name, and lie West three quarters South, 6 Leagues from the Mountain of the Red Hat; but in steering along Shore make a W.
This Island which is about three-quarters of a Mile in Circuit, and low, lies N.
We shall arrive a little before twilight, three quarters of an hour before the cemetery gates are closed The hearse will drive up to the grave; and I shall follow, for that is my business.
A fair fight no man can object to, and if it's known in the proper quarters and not in the wrong ones, there ought to be a little money moving for both of you.
And the lamps and the clocks, and the crucifixes, even the thrones, were all presents brought from the four quarters of the world in the great fervent days of jubilee.
Her presence was in nowise necessary, he said; he would undertake everything, and within three quarters of an hour she would find her patients in her ward at the hospital.
What interest too could she have had in his coming to Rome to defend himself; and with what object had she carried her amiability so far as to desire that he should take up his quarters in the mansion?
Barely three more quarters of an hour, and Lourdes, with all its vast hopes, would blaze forth in the midst of that night, so long and cruel.
The pan of apple-quarters having overflowed had been replaced by a pail, which was also nearly full, when, after a playful scuffle of hands in the basket, Hiram secured the last apple and peeled it.
There were no lights nearer than three-quarters of a mile?
In front of Barbara was another chair, on which sat a pan to hold thequarters of apples when prepared for drying; on one of the rungs of this Barbara supported her feet.
More than three-quarters of a mile away from the place where the murder took place?
You don't mean to say that the platform torches up by the preachers' tent gave any light three-quarters of a mile away and in the woods?
Tie securely with a stout string and then pat three-quarters cup of flour into the meat.
Do not fill the can that contains the cream mixture more than three-quarters full.
Pour over the meat and cook very slowly for one and three-quarters hours.
Now pour in very slowly Three-quarters cup of yellow cornmeal.
Rub between the hands to mix and then add three-quarters cup of cold water to form a dough.
Cover with a layer of the cake batter and then repeat this until the pan, is three-quarters full.
On the same day Helena will accompany him to Cloisterham, to take up her quarters at the Nuns' House, the establishment recommended by yourself and son jointly.
It should be made clear in all quarters that she and Edwin were the best of friends.
Come sundry rooks, from various quarters of the sky, back to the great tower; who may be presumed to enjoy vibration, and to know that bell and organ are going to give it them.
At the four quarters of it are the names of four angels, viz.
The impress is the royal achievement, engraved on a piece of crystal or white sapphire, of oval form, measuring about three-quarters of an inch by five-eighths.
The hoop is three-quarters of an inch wide, with raised edges, and plain surface between the five elevations on its upper portion.
