quires

• “To her faithful eye were addressed those formidable quires which issued forth from Mervyn-hall on the wings of the post, while Miss Mannering was a guest there.”

  Chapter XVII

• “To her faithful eye were addressed those formidable quires which issued forth from Mervyn Hall on the wings of the post while Miss Mannering was a guest there.”

  Guy Mannering

• “To her faithful eye were addressed those formidable quires which issued forth from Mervyn Hall on the wings of the post while Miss”

  Guy Mannering — Complete

• “To her faithful eye were addressed those formidable quires which issued forth from”

  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete

• “So she doesn't hate gay people (or "quires", as she calls them), she just wants them to live in fear and shame.”

  Pam's House Blend - Front Page

• “These background checks are outsourced to a corporate security office. _____________ quires that employees pass provide updated medical physicals, passports, and training requirements.”

  The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts, Part 17: Use of PSC is Cost Prohibitive

• “The other matter is that up through the 1820s publishers didn't issue "finished" editions for authors to sign; you bought a book in quires of printed pages and, if you chose and could afford to, took them to a bookbinder.”

  Forbes: Beware Rare Book Forgeries

• “Each 1/24th of a second re-quires five megabytes of memory.”

  Newsweek: High Tech In Toon Town

• “In the better and wiser tone of feeling with Ovid only expresses in one line to retract in that which follows, I can address these quires —”

  The Bride of Lammermoor

• “After several attempts to peruse the quires of paper thus singularly conferred on me, in which I was interrupted by the most inexplicable fits of yawning, I at length, in a sort of despair, communicated them to our village club, from whom they found a more favourable reception than the unlucky conformation of my nerves had been able to afford them.”

  The Monastery

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