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alrax73 commented on the word to cry quarter
Collins says here http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/cry-quarter it means to beg for mercy. I ran into it in a short story of Karen Blixen, The Pearls, in her Winter Tales collection.
May 19, 2015