Sentences with quartering
quar·ter·ing
Q q - A quartering sea or wind
- A quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- Home describes with grisly relish the flaying alive, castration, and dismemberment of the d' Aulnay brothers by Philip the Fair, as well as the quartering of Henri IVs assassin, Ravaillac.
- The marechal des logis was the administrative officer responsible for encamping and quartering troops.
- He stayed there for an hour and a quarter.
- The clock struck the quarter.
- The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibited the European practice of quartering soldiers in private homes.
- I certainly am glad that the US Constitution forbids quartering of soldiers in my house.
- The bank sends out a statement each quarter.
- The wind is blowing in that quarter.
- The Scottish business community is ecstatic because, after being hanged and drawn, its quartering has been postponed for a twelvemonth.
- No more burnings at the stake, no more drawing and quartering, but true freedom to worship.
- The Turkish quarter; an artists' quarter.
- He received secret information from a high quarter.
- Traditionally a cross was cut into the dough, which helped in the even baking of the bread and assisted in the quartering of the loaf afterwards.
- Webster's dictionary defines logistics as ‘the branch of military science having to do with moving, supplying and quartering troops.
- To give quarter; to ask for quarter.
- Another boat is coming near on the port quarter.
- Both of these are big enough for quartering an elk or lopping off a ridge pole for your tent, yet they're sufficiently thin to do a good job of slicing bacon for the breakfast skillet.
- Public service in this period included personal services such as labor on the fortifications being built at the isthmus of Corinth and the quartering and provisioning of dragoons and their mounts in the villages in the winter months.
- Quarter the pie into six pieces.
- He quartered his men with the farmer.
- In November, English recruiting officers appeared in Boston, and the Assembly and the Boston magistrates forbade any recruiting or any quartering of troops in the town.
- In 1703 the provveditore of New Navarino noted that he would raise these from those villages not currently contributing to the quartering of dragoons.
- To quarter in a cheap hotel.
- I've only heard rumors of you, Amseth, and was delightfully shocked to see you quartering here, in my mistress' home.
- A common way to move a brigade support area is to send out a quartering party to establish a new operating area before moving the main body.
- Following extant written sources, this process has been seen in relation to the quartering of troops that occurred during the war between the Byzantines and the Goths, or simply as the result of occupation by squatters.
- They have proven themselves incorrigible; drawing and quartering would be too good for them.
- It was then that I started developing my ideas on the reintroduction of hanging, drawing and quartering for political crimes against the people.
- Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
- In this case, dissection took the place of quartering ; it was likewise viewed as a form of supplementary punishment, a further mark of infamy, inflicted on the criminal after death.
- With opportunities for economic growth and municipal development always a priority, the commissioners wished to prove to the military that Mobile was a suitable location for quartering and training troops.
- It was de-stoning and quartering the dates that took so long.