Слово "quarter". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The church clock strikes the first quarter.

“It is very pleasant to hear this,” he said—“very: go on for another quarter of an hour.” And he actually took out his watch and laid it upon the table to measure the time.

Even if I was to get a quarter-inch hole in this suit,

'You had better go back to your Pantry, Martin,' he said. 'I shall switch on in a quarter of an hour.

"At a quarter to two (Only it was quarter to eleven really), I found the Tail!"

“There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight o’clock,” it said, “a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask.”

This account of you we have from all quarters received.

because they grow in extremely close quarters with other crystals.

She conducted me to a spacious chamber in one of the buildings fronting on the plaza, and which, from the litter of silks and furs upon the floor, I took to be the sleeping quarters of several of the natives.

The crew's quarters were in the forepeak.

Could mean that space in Complex was needed for purpose other than quarters.

"What the devil does it mean?" grumbled some of the officers, dispersing to their quarters. "One is sleepy, and here this Von Rabbek with his tea!

Ah! yes. So much so that he seeks for help in the most improbable quarters.'

Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’

Its many and growing commercial opportunities gave it widespread fame, which made of it a giant magnet, drawing to itself, from all quarters, the hopeful and the hopeless — those who had their fortune yet to make and those whose fortunes and affairs had reached a disastrous climax elsewhere.

But the stranger knew not the headstrong personage he had to do with; d'Artagnan was not the man ever to cry for quarter.

He asked no quarter; he gave no quarter.

"And I warn you, Hober Mallow of Smyrno, that if you arrest me, there will be no quarter.

He who had no home of his own t would take up his quarters with some fellow-student’s family; the philosophers and theologians looked out for tutors’ posts, taught the children of rich farmers, and received for doing so a pair of new boots and sometimes also a new coat,

For now the dogs hated him—hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by Mit-sah; hated him for all the real and fancied favours he received; hated him for that he fled always at the head of the team, his waving brush of a tail and his perpetually retreating hind-quarters for ever maddening their eyes.

The men fired again and again, and, when the animals got to close quarters, lashed out with their sticks and their heavy boots.

The windows of the back rooms overlooked an enormous court, which formed the center of the square made by the buildings which faced the four contiguous streets, and which was now given over to the quartering of the various animals belonging to the warriors occupying the adjoining buildings.

From the outbuildings at the back of the palace, where the first cohort of the Twelfth Lightning legion, [4] which had come to Yershalaim [5] with the procurator, was quartered, a whiff of smoke reached the colonnade across the upper terrace of the palace, and this slightly acrid smoke, which testified that the centuries' mess cooks had begun to prepare dinner, was mingled with the same thick rosy scent.

Each group of these booths, of all sizes and shapes, formed a separate quarter particularly dedicated to some special branch of commerce. There was the iron quarter, the furriers’ quarter, the woolen quarter, the quarter of the wood merchants, the weavers’ quarter, the dried fish quarter, etc.

Crosby called it «The Pissant Hilton," and he demanded quarters at the American embassy.

No quarter is to be given to the English, on account of their cruelty to our braves on board the infamous pontoons.

The old man saw the brown fins coming along the wide trail the fish must make in the water. They were not even quartering on the scent.