Quartered
['kwɔːtəd] or ['kwɔrtɚd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Quartter
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Examples
- Quartered here, Captain George? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Would he have quartered him --flayed him? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- After the breaking out of the war there was a regiment of volunteer soldiers quartered at Fort Gratiot, the reservation extending to the boundary line of our house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It seemed best that I quartered either by myself or among the other warriors, and I was awaiting an opportunity to ask your advice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Since the ----shire were first quartered in Meryton, nothing but love, flirtation, and officers have been in her head. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He has the promise of an ensigncy in General ----'s regiment, now quartered in the North. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- No, it was Captain Humby of the thirty-third, as was quartered with the --th in Injee. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You are therefore appointed a padwar of The Guards and will be quartered in my palace hereafter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The house was deserted, and had been one of those assigned to the invading strangers quartered in London. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He will have quartered her there for the night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The arms quartered on the shield along with his own were not, to be sure, poor Rose's. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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