In Quires and Places where they sing here followeth the Anthem.
Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, composed of several quires of paper stitched into a parchment cover.
There have doubtless been quires upon quiresof brilliant writing devoted to that absorbing theme.
If we go back to the habits of the scribes it is easy to understand another point in the early history of books, their make-up into quires and the marking of these quires by signatures and catchwords.
Hitherto the quires had been marked by hand, and this improvement was not suffered to drop for a time like the others, but quickly spread all over Europe.
In the earliest printed books the quires were printed page by page exactly as the quires of a manuscript had been written.
In this the index-letter shows the number of leaves in the quire, a-i^10 being a short way of stating that each of the nine quires a b c d e f g h i has ten leaves in it.
Variations of these types of plan are seen in the thirteenth-century enlargements of the Benedictine churches of Rochester and Worcester, in which the quires were placed in the eastern arm.
It is a quarto volume, arranged in quires of five sheets or ten leaves each, like Codex Marchalianus of the Prophets written in the sixth or seventh century and Cod.
The workman then takes about 4 quires of paper, spreads them out in the size properly diluted with water, taking care that they be equally moistened.
In this way, felts and paper are alternately stratified, till a heap of six or eight quires is formed, which is from 15 to 18 inches high.
In 1713 two quires of painted paper cost four shillings, and two quires of blue paper, three shillings.
She picked up one of the quires of manuscript, opened it and gazed a while at the many-staved score.
He gazed at her until a gush of tears blinded his eyes and he turned, blinking them away, to the untidy quires of score paper which he had tried to choose instead.
She came swiftly toward the piano and stood the big flat quires of score paper on the rack.
The principal investigations on my quires are--Investigations about pendulums, Calculus of Variations, Notes for the Figure of the Earth (Encyc.
On my quires I find various schemes for graduating thermometers for pendulum experiments.
On the same page of my quires on which this is mentioned, there is a great list of apparatus to be constructed for Lucasian Lectures, notes of experiments with Atwood's Machine, &c.
On my quires at Cambridge I was working on the effects of separating the object-glass lenses, with the view of correcting the secondary spectrum: and on Jan.
My principal mathematics on the quires are Optics.
Before my election (as Plumian Professor) there are various schemes on my quires for computation of transit corrections, &c.
In Quires and Places where they sing, here followeth the Anthem.
I've sold me four and five quires a-day, but I don't sell above two and three dozen a-day now.
And as He fed, angelic quires Sang Heavenly anthems of His victory Over temptation and the Tempter proud.
If the quires or gatherings in the book to be described are signed in print, the signatures used should be quoted without brackets.
The recognition of what is meant by the size of a book has been obscured by the erroneous idea that the quires or gatherings of which books are made up necessarily consist of single sheets.
Where no standard collation is available, this can only be ascertained by a detailed examination of the quires or gatherings of which it is made up (see below).
I’ve sold me four and five quires a-day, but I don’t sell above two and three dozen a-day now.
Being returned to the campe they had intelligence of another prouince called Los Quires, [Sidenote: Quires bordering vpon Rio del Norte.
Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires three to eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, the rest 27 lines.
The arching boughs unite between The columns of the temple green, And underneath the wingèd quires Echo about their tunèd fires.
In 1446 Exeter College, Oxford, paid ten shillings and a penny for twelve quires and two skins of parchment bought at Abingdon to send to the monastery of Plympton in Devonshire, where a book was being written for the College.
There had beenquires of such verses, but she had destroyed all but a few leaves before she started for Littlebath.
The car he ac-quires is graced by celestial damsels of great beauty that have Indra for their father.
Such a person ac-quires children and fame and wealth and prosperity, and dispels all evils and dreams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
