"I was just coming to that," Tommy answered; "I am just a quarter of mother's present age, and in four years' time I shall be a quarter the age of father.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

And she sang it just as quietly, as coolly, and as well as the others.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was just a quarter past seven then.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[169] And not a few of the Quakers joined American Quaker settlements farther north, as in Salem, Henry County.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Tel vous semble applaudir, qui vous raille et 35 vous joue; / Aimez qu'on vous conseille, et non pas qu'on vous loue —Such a one seems to applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach yourself to those who advise you rather than to those who praise. Boileau.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But whatever prophecies concerning the grace of God through Christ Jesus are quoted, they may be thought to have been forged by the Christians.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When Titus had enlarged upon this matter before the commanders, it appeared evident that he would execute the law against all those that were concerned; so these soldiers' minds sunk down in despair, as expecting to be put to death, and that justly and quickly.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

When King Olaf had resolved on his return home, he made known his intention to King Jarisleif and Queen Ingegerd.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Je lui ai cette obligation entre les autres, de m’ auoir non seulement mis en main cc Livre en anglois, mais encore le Manuscrit du Sieur Thomas D’Anan, gentilhomme Eccossois, recommandable pour sa vertu, sur la version duquel j’ advoue que j’ ay tiré le plan de la mienne.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Jim asked quickly.
— from Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of Cuzco by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

And, in every age, the great mass of Christian tendencies break themselves into these three forms:—Ebionite, Pauline, and contemplative Gnostic; Pelagian, Augustinian, and Mystic; Jesuit, Jansenist, and Quietist; Arminian, Lutheran, and Quaker; all proclaim the perseverance of the same essential types, wherever the spirit of Christ alights upon the various heart of man.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

Entertainment of K. James and Q. Ann , at Theobalds .
— from Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage (1688[1687]) by Gerard Langbaine

And, strange to say, in this acknowledgement of his baseness there was something painful yet joyful and quieting.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And Jeanne asked questions in her own fearless fashion.
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas

"Don't you think I'd better drop in on Ruggedo and obey the orders of the Jinjin?" asked Quox.
— from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Their letters no longer dwelt upon battles, or the prospect of battles, but gossiped about the jealousies and quarrels among our generals, who seemed to dislike one another much more than they did the common enemy, and told us long and quite incredible tales about the
— from In the Sixties by Harold Frederic

I started and then there was enough doctors pushing him and I went back to get his clothing and by the time I came back up again—I went just as quickly as I could walk back to trauma room 2 and got the clothing, I ran back up to catch him, and the elevator was closing with him on it.
— from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Joseph as quickly asked.
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock

I could not at first think how beautiful it was, or how curious, but I thought, ‘O how many times when the shadow of the wall was falling on our room, and when that weary tread of feet was going up and down the yard—O how many times this place was just as quiet and lovely as it is to-day!’
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens