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Example sentences for "other quarters"

  • In other quarters of the kingdom, the affairs of the Swedes began to wear a more favourable aspect, and to recover from the humiliation into which they had been thrown by the inaction of France, and the desertion of their allies.

  • The Emperor thus lost a friend, while a new enemy was appearing at his very gates, his armies dispersed, and his allies in other quarters of Germany defeated.

  • In the mean time, however, the opportunity for a great undertaking had been lost, and the united generals divided their forces to oppose the enemy in other quarters.

  • His generals, with forces under them, were establishing his supremacy in other quarters.

  • In deep despondency he quitted the court, and took his way to the south, as if in desperation, to seek other patronage in other quarters.

  • In other quarters, however, it was pointed out that the despatch of the force must have been the act of the whole Cabinet, and that it had a moral value as a demonstration of sympathy with Belgium.

  • But Germany had prepared also to attack in other quarters.

  • While enjoying the benefits of amicable intercourse with foreign nations, we have not been insensible to the distractions and wars which have prevailed in other quarters of the world.

  • The same fact, on a grander scale, has been remarked in the eastern and loftiest line of the Bolivian Cordillera, through which the rivers pass: analogous facts have also been observed in other quarters of the world.

  • I believe the explanation is not difficult, and that it is perhaps applicable to nearly analogous facts observed in other quarters of the world.

  • At the same period attacks were reported in other quarters on that side of the Chesapeake, as elsewhere in the extensive basin penetrated by its tributaries.

  • They have ample relief in other quarters; indeed, the dependence of the two countries on each other was overrated.

  • It must be confessed, however, that unescapable traditions and certain inexorable conditions of our brotherhood tend to a modification of the standards of truthfulness which have been set up in other quarters.

  • The manifestation of littleness and crowding selfishness often condoned in other quarters, and the over-reaching conduct so generally permitted in business circles, are unpardonable crimes in the true fisherman's code.

  • Of this Washington bitterly complained; but as the evil could not be obviated without creating distress in other quarters, no effectual assistance could be rendered.

  • Success, however, attended the British arms in other quarters.

  • In other quarters of the world our operations this year were of considerable importance.

  • First, a diminution of the value of your staple commodity, lowered by over production in other quarters, and the consequent diminution in the value of your lands, were the sole effect of the tariff laws.

  • But it was the only possible aim left and, from a military point of view, it could only be pursued in one way, by a definite hammering at some vital point to secure a decisive result, with a defensive stand in other quarters.

  • Soon, too, "Agriculture" found that though it had not sown on its big farm it might still reap in other quarters.

  • He saw the Russians compelled, by the very necessities of their position, to call off their forces to other quarters, and yet he abstained from striking a blow in defence of those interests which he had ever declared were most sacred to him.

  • Having traced Yakoob Beg's wars with the Chinese Mahomedans, it is time to consider his rule of Kashgaria proper, and the events that during these years were transpiring in other quarters of the state.

  • Reception of the 'Novum Instrumentum' in other quarters, 398.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    other animal; other branches; other breeds; other circumstances; other colonies; other course; other friends; other good; other goods; other groups; other house; other languages; other material; other matter; other minds; other nationalities; other offices; other organs; other parties; other planets; other stories; other things; other trees; other world; otherwise they; trade and