Straightway the prophet cries: 'I see a foreigner draw nigh, an army from the same quarter seek the same quarter, and reign high in our fortress.'
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

they are more often caused by those aerial devils, in their several quarters; for Tempestatibus se ingerunt , saith [1182] Rich.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

An opportunity occurring presently, she put the same question to another person and got an answer that satisfied her.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

In a democracy, where a multitude of people exercise in person the legislative functions, and are continually exposed, by their incapacity for regular deliberation and concerted measures, to the ambitious intrigues of their executive magistrates, tyranny may well be apprehended, on some favorable emergency, to start up in the same quarter.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

"What, then?" she queried.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Certainly, he was sure of taking him, if he was pointed out to him, but if not, he could not answer for being able to discover him, himself, and after reflecting for a long time, he put this simple question: “Do you know the thief?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Il n'est pas impossible que, si on assiste à une véritable généralisation de l'e-book, ou à travers les Psion, Palm, Wap, UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system)… qui sait, le papier finisse par être détrôné.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

She prefaced this invitation with so many apologies that she quite excited my curiosity.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If you have formed an opinion and have formulated it, and if you are anxious to come to an understanding with others who have also formed an opinion on the same subject, then all you need do is to communicate with your neighbours and send a delegate to come to an understanding with other delegates on this specific question; but you will certainly reserve to yourselves the right of taking an ultimate decision; you will not entrust your delegate with the making of laws for you.
— from The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

to start the saliva,” quavered the scout, sucking hard; “to prevent me from feeling the thirst so much.”
— from A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook

We want to see Quentina right away, quick.
— from The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

"I am not very bright," he said, "and you think so many things so quickly that I do not know what you mean a good deal of the time.
— from Nautilus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

At Gylingden and Brandon he had been simulating Captain Stanley Lake—being, in truth, something quite different—with a vigilant histrionic effort which was awfully exhausting, and sometimes nearly intolerable.
— from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Indeed what we call style in art is but the reflection of the same quality in Nature herself, the love which adds to the more oblivious facts of Nature a further quality of truth, a completer insight into her.
— from The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II by Barrington, Russell, Mrs.

The southeast quarter of the northeast quarter and the east half of the southeast quarter of section 12; the east half of section 13; the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 23; the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, the east half of the southeast quarter, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 24; the east half of the east half, the west half of the northwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of section 25; the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter and the south half of the southeast quarter of section 26; the south half of the south half of section 34; the northeast quarter, the north half of the southeast quarter, the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the south half of the southwest quarter of section 35; and the northwest quarter of section 36.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Benjamin Harrison

They were grieved and desponding over the disastrous result, while the loyalists, rejoicing at the check thus given to the progress of the rebellion, looked confidently for its speedy close, the restoration of the royal governments, and the return of the several provincial governors who had discreetly abdicated at the first outbreak, and retired to safer quarters.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

This Act was a slight indication of the unrest of the people of this colony on the slavery question:— "[376] An Act to prevent The Disorder of Negro And Indian Servants and Slaves in the Night Season.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams