quiring

The Duncans 'house, however, boasted a clock, a magnificent contrivance of walnut panels, brass pendulums, and a face decorated with quiring cherubim, and this instrument pointed to half-past six.

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They fared on all that night till the morning morrowed when lo! they found themselves in a green and smiling country, full of trees spireing and birds quiring and garths fruit-growing and palaces highshowing and waters a-flowing and odoriferous flowers a-blowing.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

"What-what was that all about?" she heard herself in-quiring of Jeriill.

The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

Granted that the Trojan story was untrue, he made a point of en - quiring how the legend could have arisen.

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

This point may also serve to illustrate the ambiguous sense in which Newton's system triumphed through its “sim - plicity”: as Butterfield remarks, it was simple in re - quiring relatively few ad hoc assumptions about the sort of forces involved; it was the reverse of simple in the mathematics necessary to compute the concrete resultant of forces.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

If, as seems quite possible, the quiring of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at the end is the more readily explained.

Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name

One of God's messengers has at last struck the missing chord and awakened a flood of divine melody more acceptable to the quiring hosts than the lays of measured song.

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

In the morning Mark heard Mass at the church of the Cowley Fathers, a strengthening experience, because the Gregorian there so strictly and so austerely chanted without any consideration for sentimental humanity possessed that very effect of liberating and purifying spirit held in the bonds of flesh which is conveyed by the wind blowing through a grove of pines or by waves quiring below a rocky shore.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

It is as if the pearly gates had been opened for a brief interval to let the earth hear the "quiring of the young-eyed cherubims."

Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

The light was now only on the hilltops; the birds were silent; only the frogs in the lush meadows kept up their quiring, a sound quaintly mournful, weirdly charming.

The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903