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Example sentences for "that quarter"

  • The arms of the Mendaeans and of their Peloponnesian auxiliaries within the wall happened to be piled in that quarter, where Polydamidas accordingly began to draw them up for battle, encouraging the Mendaeans to make a sortie.

  • Again, from their old residence in that quarter, the citadel is still known among Athenians as the city.

  • Meantime the valley was left open to Early's troops, and others in that quarter; and Washington also was uncovered.

  • He turned from his new position and captured the forts on both heights in that quarter.

  • General Worth, with his division somewhat reinforced, was given the task of gaining possession of the Saltillo road, and of carrying the detached works outside the city, in that quarter.

  • The Chickamaugas, aided by some banditti of another tribe in their vicinity, have recently perpetrated wanton and unprovoked hostilities upon the citizens of the United States in that quarter.

  • The correspondence on this subject now communicated will exhibit more particularly the present state of things in that quarter.

  • An army of the confederates entered Alsace before Henry made his appearance there, and an Austrian army, which the Bishop of Strasburg and Passau had assembled in that quarter for an expedition against Juliers, was dispersed.

  • The state of affairs in Saxony enabled the Emperor to make some bolder experiments in that quarter.

  • In that quarter, their numbers were overwhelming; in most places they had possession of the revenues which Ferdinand would need for the maintenance of the war.

  • The Sergeant politely answered that he would take my presence as a favour, having something to say about the servants in general, and having found my experience in that quarter already of some use to him.

  • The mystery in that quarter is thicker than ever," he said.

  • I meet you here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I have been strolling in that quarter.

  • In the direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter.

  • The Emperor detached Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter.

  • With this view he turned hastily to Miss de Haldimar, and hurriedly naming the back staircase of the block-house, urged her to direct her flight to that quarter.

  • He gave up the territory conquered by Trajan in the East, and made the Euphrates once more the boundary of the empire in that quarter.

  • The Romans, who were jealously watching affairs in the peninsula, had entered into an alliance with this city, and taken it, with other Greek cities in that quarter of the Mediterranean, under their protection.

  • The English army in that quarter, attempting to withstand the invaders, was cut to pieces; and the important city of York fell into the hands of the Northmen.

  • As Catharine, like myself, has never had the privilege of examining the records in the court of chancery at Vienna, she expressed some doubt as to the justice of Austria's appropriation in that quarter.

  • Now a wedge of that sort is inconvenient, perhaps dangerous, and it is lucky for Austria that she has found out her right of possession in that quarter.

  • If Russia will recognize the sovereignty of the Porte in that quarter, then Austria will induce him to withdraw his pretensions in Tartary.

  • I once knew a Scotch gentleman at London, who had declared war against this part of his countrymen; and swore that the impudence and knavery of the Scots, in that quarter, had brought a reproach upon the whole nation.

  • I can only hope there is no trouble for Allan brewing in that quarter.

  • With this summary of a housemaid's duties, Allan sauntered back into the hall, and found more signs of life in that quarter.

  • Then his attention was called not only to the perfect immunity from further outrage of the victim and his follower, but to the profound silence, and absence of danger which seemed to exist in that quarter.

  • We have something in that quarter to-morrow.

  • The next step is the mamma; but I do not anticipate much difficulty in that quarter.

  • As to Miss Eversham, the following short note from the dean concluded my hopes in that quarter.

  • But there were other interests to be consulted;--and the undisguised earnestness with which Sheridan had opposed the union of his party with the Grenvilles, left him but little supererogation of services to expect in that quarter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    laden with; must insist; steam heat; that can; that city; that could; that girl; that hath; that instant; that lady; that letter; that other; that our; that place; that power; that province; that question; that seemed; that sense; that she; that such; that their; that what; that would; third chapter; when placed