49 Metaphors for quartered

About a quarter of a mile inside was a small, low island, on which lay five boats, each manned by five men, who had come down to our assistance; but the surf was so high that they did not venture to approach us; so we remained clinging with difficulty to the rigging till about half-past one, when the schooner went to pieces.

The "quarters" were about three hundred yards from the dwelling of the overseer.

On the back of this piece of wood, a quarter of an inch or so from the bottom, on the left-hand side, was a faint smear of blood.

The most fashionable quarters for residences of the wealthy classes are the broad and beautiful Avenue Louise and the streets and avenues of the Quartier Leopold.

Three quarters of a mile East-North-East from this point is a dangerous rocky ledge just awash, on which several vessels have run.

The hind-quarters should be strong, thighs muscular and of good length, with the hocks moderately straight, well set down and fair amount of bone.

This quarter is desolation.

A quarter of the mixture is a dose.)

The prison quarters are cells built entirely of cement, with two barred windows well above the ground to light the chamber, which is of ample size.

Each labourer received one quarter of corn; but one quarter of corn at that time was the result of the same cost of production, as 1 1/5 quarter now.

False quarter is the term applied to that condition of the horn of the quarter in which, owing to disease or injury of the coronet, the wall is grown in a manner that is incomplete.

About a quarter of a mile out of the town to the south-west is the Tudor Manor of the Strodes, standing in Parnham Park.

The other three-quarters was a sort of bog, or marsh, its surface broken up by large shell holes.

About a quarter of a mile back from the beach was the storehouse of the Rackbirds, a sort of cellar which they had made in a sand-hill.

We had turned toward the north, and the straggling town lay directly in front two miles away, so hidden behind trees the houses were scarcely distinguishable; a quarter of a mile below was the bridge.

"One night the servants quarters was overflowin' wid Yankee soldiers.

Their stables, store-houses, and servants' quarters are old tombs; their talk is of tombs, and their dream (the diggers' dream always) is to discover a virgin tomb where the untouched dead lie with their jewels upon them.

Well, for one thing, a quarter of an inch on a map is a good many miles of ground.

This quarter of Canton, however, is not the handsomest, because all the warehouses are erected on the sides of the canals, where the different workmen have also taken up their residence in miserable huts that, built half upon the ground and half upon worm-eaten piles, stretch far out over the water.

A quarter of a mile beyond the church in a field on the right are the "fairy slats."

Plantation "The slave quarter was a row of houses.

The Frank quarter, which is much better contrived, is the model for subsequent erections.

A quarter of a mile above us, and about the same distance from the timber line on every side, were three jagged peaks, and not more than twenty yards apart.

And this it did; but no such wind as we did desire; for when the morning came upon us, we discovered all that part of the sky to be full of a fiery redness, which presently spread away down to the South, so that an entire quarter of the heavens was, as it seemed to us, a mighty arc of blood-colored fire.

But he had set a noble example, and had given an undeniable proof of the possibility of quelling the most formidable tumults; and it may be said that his quarters were the only spot in all France which was not wholly given up to anarchy and disorder.

49 Metaphors for  quartered