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  • For these sights and sounds Mrs. Wade had no attention, but frequently her ear was smitten with the name "Quarrier," spoken or roared by partisan or adversary.

    Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880

  • The Simpson M.E. Church, their main charge, was being developed during these years and was in 1867 housed in a comfortable building on Dickinson and Quarrier Streets.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

  • Colonel Quarrier could receive the airmen's report only by means of a written message dropped from the seaplane, while before the storming troops were in position the airmen would have to return to their temporary base, replenish petrol and then fly off to bomb von

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • Colonel Quarrier was delighted with Wilmshurst's report and personally complimented him upon the way in which he had accomplished the difficult task with which he had been entrusted, and also the brilliant little action, which was quite unexpected.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • "I wonder what Tarry Barrel has been doing?" thought Dudley as he hastened to report to his C.O. Colonel Quarrier was laughing, so were the adjutant and the regimental sergeant-major.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • Colonel Quarrier was a man who had grown grey in the service of the

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • "I refer to the actual terrain," interrupted Colonel Quarrier.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • Colonel Quarrier proposed making their actual frontal attack.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • "Case hardened" to the attacks of mosquitos, his system overcharged with malarial germs until the scourge of the Coast failed to harm him, Colonel Quarrier possessed one of the principal qualifications for bush-fighting in the Tropics -- a "salted" constitution.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • "It would be well, however, not to take too much for granted, sir," remarked the adjutant to Colonel Quarrier after the Germans had been removed.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

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