Quarters
['kwɔtə(r)z]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. [1]. Stations, posts, cantonments.[2]. Lodging, dwelling, abode, habitation, headquarters.
Editor: Olaf
Examples
- Had they not better throw these bodies to the plant men and then return to their quarters, O Mighty One? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- With its sharp clear bell it strikes three quarters after seven and ticks on again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Lord Steyne, and her son in London, had many a laugh over the story when Rawdon and his wife returned to their quarters in May Fair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As soon as the tribe found out that we had a doctor in our party, they began to flock in from all quarters. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He won't be here this three-quarters of an hour or more,' said the young lady who superintended the domestic arrangements of the Blue Boar. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We were occupying ceased to afford comfortable quarters; and further orders not reaching us, we began to look about to remedy the hardship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Only two or three evolutions had been gone through when he dismissed the battalion, and, turning to go to his own quarters, dropped dead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As its eyes met Clayton's it stopped, and deliberately, cautiously gathered its hind quarters behind it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It consisted of a graduated arc of soli d polished brass five inches broad, two inches thick, and with a radius of about six and three quarters feet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The quarters were small, the staff was composed of two men, and the entire work was confined to making photographs of the cars and parts for advertising literature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Possibly you would rather return to Sola and your quarters. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We remained in quarters until the afternoon bathing our eyes in cold water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Englishman sprang quickly after him just in time to see the hind quarters of some huge animal about to disappear through the window of the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Word was soon brought that I was nowhere to be found, either in the palace or at my former quarters in the barracks of the air-scout squadron. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Evans' System Prevailed for Three Quarters of a Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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