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  • WIAN: Well, what I can tell you is at the very beginning, 2: 00 o'clock in the morning local time, there were two groups of teenagers parked up in this area of the Antelope Valley known as the Quarts (ph) Hill water tower.

    CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2002 2002

  • TOM PIGOTT, L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPA.TMENT: ... an area known as Quarts Hill Mountain.

    CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2002 2002

  • With the exception of Vouvray, none of these are exactly household names; other appellations include Anjou, Bonnezeaux, Chinon, Coteaux du Layon, Jasnières, Montlouis-sur-Loire, Quarts de Chaume, Saumur and Savennières.

    Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc Jay McInerney 2012

  • It was paired with a sweet wine from the northern Loire, a 2004 Quarts de Chaumes, Domaine des Baumard, in which Mr. Turgeman detected the scent of marzipan, among other things.

    A Stinky Job, but... 2012

  • For many connoisseurs, the dessert wines of Vouvray, Quarts de Chaume and Bonnezeaux represent the apex of Chenin, although I'm currently most interested in the dry wines, many of them from relatively new domains.

    Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc Jay McInerney 2012

  • Quarts of sea water oozed and trickled from his clothing and shoes.

    I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

  • Quarts of the stuff are sucked out him on a weekly basis.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • If it says Coteaux du Layon on the label (or, better still, one of the sub-regions Chaume, Quarts de Chaumes or Bonnezeaux) you can buy with confidence: making sweet wine is such a vexed business that only the obsessives bother to do it.

    Oops, I Sipped It Again… 2009

  • If it says Coteaux du Layon on the label (or, better still, one of the sub-regions Chaume, Quarts de Chaumes or Bonnezeaux) you can buy with confidence: making sweet wine is such a vexed business that only the obsessives bother to do it.

    Oops, I Sipped It Again… 2009

  • Of these, then, Two Quarts of strong Broth you take;

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

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