The height of these wheels was six and three quarters feet, their thickness three feet.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Some derive the term quandary from the French phrase qu'en dirai je?
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

The Commission’s telegram of October 7th goes on to quote from the Belgian Consul’s opinion that “Present rebellion represents only one half of one per cent.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Honeycomb assures me they are obliged to dwell almost a Minute on the Fair One's Lips, or they will be too quick for the Musick, and dance quite out of Time.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Where references are in italic type , quotations from the texts indicated will be found in the New English Dictionary , under the head of the English word which is distinguished in the article by quotation marks (see Preface).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

She could quarter herself on Wimpole Street because it had come to be her home; but she was quite aware that she ought not to quarter Freddy there, and that it would not be good for his character if she did.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

When his brother succeeds in 1880 as Duke of London he petitions the Queen for that style and precedence which he would have enjoyed had his father lived to inherit the Dukedom.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Suddenly the horse reared and threw the queen from the saddle.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Then quickly from the foughten field he sent Ulfius, and Brastias, and Bedivere, His new-made knights, to King Leodogran, Saying, 'If I in aught have served thee well, Give me thy daughter Guinevere to wife.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

So fierce a gale made havoc here of late Among the strange devices of our kings; Yea, shook this newer, stronger hall of ours, And from the statue Merlin moulded for us Half-wrenched a golden wing; but now—the Quest, This vision—hast thou seen the Holy Cup, That Joseph brought of old to Glastonbury?" 'So when I told him all thyself hast heard, Ambrosius, and my fresh but fixt resolve To pass away into the quiet life, He answered not, but, sharply turning, asked Of Gawain, "Gawain, was this Quest for thee?" '"Nay, lord," said Gawain, "not for such as I.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

In fact, there was so little difference, probably, in their qualities, from that time to this, that I felt the process of the generations to be a sort of impertinence; and if Nature had been present, I might very well have asked her why, when she had once arrived at a given expression of humanity, she must go on repeating it indefinitely?
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

H2 anchor CHAPTER IV—WHERE FORSYTES FEAR TO TREAD Quivering from the defeat of his hopes, with the green morocco case still flat against his heart, Soames revolved thoughts bitter as death.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

In September, the combined forces of France and Spain were beaten off with still heavier loss from the impregnable fortress of Gibraltar; and the only region in which a French admiral escaped disaster was the Indian Sea, where the Bailli de Suffrein, an officer of rare energy and ability, encountered the British admiral, Sir Edward Hughes, in a series of severe actions, and, except on one occasion in which he lost a few transports, never permitted his antagonist to claim any advantage over him; the single loss which he sustained in his first combat being more than counterbalanced by his success on land, where, by the aid of Hyder Ali's son, the celebrated Tippoo, be made himself master of Cuddalore; and then, dropping down to the Cingalese coast, recaptured Trincomalee, the conquest of which had been one of Hughes's most recent achievements.[12] The queen felt the reverses keenly.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

But Hawkesworth, who knew the importance of the evidence, was too quick for them.
— from Sophia: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

And José had deliberately sought the quarrel from the first; justice compelled him to remember that.
— from The Gringos A Story Of The Old California Days In 1849 by B. M. Bower

Less relates to quantity; fewer , to number.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

The touching figure of her dying mother rose vividly in her memory, and with increasing emotion she read what follows,—in all of which she distinctly felt the quickened feverish throb of the poor invalid's heart.
— from A Noble Name; or, Dönninghausen by Claire von Glümer

[113] This question faced the apostle Peter on a visit which he made to Antioch after the Apostolic Council.
— from A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments by James Oscar Boyd