How To Use Quint In A Sentence

  • IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
  • After squinting in an attempt to discern a couple of features to make the object recognizable, he began walking swiftly towards it.
  • Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
  • Quintus is aiming its product at the high-tech and software industry and hardware and software managers inside end-user organisations.
  • The two antennas 'squinted' to view the same point on Earth. Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
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  • The contrail went straight up, bisecting the Sun, forcing the crowd to squint and awkwardly block the Sun to see the contrail.
  • Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
  • There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
  • Then as well we were treated to beautiful Mozart and Strauss music by a delightful quintet in traditional costume.
  • In his brilliant first volume on the Second World War, Winston Churchill describes French statesmanship on the eve of war as ‘the quintessence of defeatism.’
  • Would you enjoy being a quintuplet in the early 20th century when, as a reproductive anomaly, the simple fact of your existence made your family a freak show.
  • Sometime snooker world champion, perpetually in the tabloids for his substance-assisted high jinks, he's the quintessence of Essex wide-boy.
  • A pair of flies beginning operation in April, if all were to live, would result in 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 (191 quintillion, 10 quadrillion) flies by August.
  • For example, in the cemetery of St. Cyriacus two women bought from the fossor Quintus a bisomus, or double grave, retro sanctos (near a martyr's tomb), and there are several other references to this practice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • The premise of harried parents trying to raise quintuplets is interesting, but they do nothing with it. 108747998260188265 « Michael in Nashville
  • I go as far as to hold it up against me and squint into a shiny reflective panel attached to a freezer cabinet. Times, Sunday Times
  • It hardly needs emphasizing that in Hong Kong, the quintessential open port, such flows of goods and of people were a long-established part of everyday experience by that time.
  • To get around this he would have only a double string quintet play during a very quiet flute or oboe solo.
  • He squinted at the letter in his hand.
  • Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache. The Younger Set
  • I squinted into the darkness, barely distinguishing anything.
  • While you're slaving over the code, cramping your thumb on your trackball, and squinting your eyes at the pixels, remember what it is you are doing this for, and never ever forget.
  • Therefore I reasoned, the longer I left it before I started sewing, the longer it would be before I was squinting well into the night unpicking it.
  • I have had a _squint_, or _cross-eye_, since birth, and in less than one minute, and with VERY LITTLE PAIN, you have made my eyes perfectly straight and natural. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
  • Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun.
  • Quintana-Murci and his team found that the split between these groups occurred around 20,000 years ago, when a period of climate change led to the Pygmy's rainforest habitat retreating into 'refugia', or small refuges of surviving rainforest, before expanding outward again. Mongabay.com News
  • The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos . Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
  • Although the child squints, it must not be called squint-eyed, but love-eyed, and even a wart must be thought to become it. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost
  • -- Having prepared the gum water for the colours, add a little coloquintida. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
  • The quintessential entertainer - entrepreneur wielded unmatched influence over our childhood.
  • The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
  • "I'm home!" I shout, stumbling over old Sylvia's gardening boots as I enter through the squint doorway.
  • If I kind of squinted and looked sideways, I could make out the white crow perphed on the battlements, looking down. Water Sleeps
  • But that particular investment eventually allowed them to quintuple their production.
  • Squint and you can see a female violinist sitting next to the concertmaster, in the new outfit the orchestra introduced for its -- very few -- woman players. And so it begins
  • What a thing to say: "I have achieved eumoiriety," -- namely the quintessence of happy-fatedness dealt unto oneself by a perfect altruism! Simon the Jester
  • Smiling, frowning, squinting and other habitual facial expressions cause these wrinkles to become more prominent.
  • He then celebrated in quintessential Paterson style, sprinting away down the line while furiously dabbing.
  • Fourteen wagons of timber left the track at Quintinshill, near Gretna, at 9.07 am.
  • All are of a pastel shade, beautifully played by a quintet of bandoneon, clarinet, piano, bass and drums, one that includes Dino Saluzzi and Kenny Werner.
  • For most of his career, Iverson has been quintessential, high - scoring offensive showman.
  • It is precisely by their capacity to engage the observer to speculate on the meanings of particular images — as well as the potential meanings constellated from clusters of images — that these chambers reveal their quintessence. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Some babies are born with a squint or their eyes roll away from each other occasionally.
  • Eventually he started to talk with the bartender, a portly fellow with a large salt-and-pepper mustache and squinty eyes.
  • That's right, so you test one eye at a time and check what their vision is and also you check at the same time to see whether they have an obvious squint.
  • So when the earth-and-timber ramparts of Sulla's camp began to trace lines across the rolling Campanian horizon, Quintus Sertorius bade his cousin-in-law a grave goodbye, geed up his horse and departed. Fortune's Favorites
  • Squinting through nostalgia's rose-tinted eye, I see beautifully realised dungeons and ancient forests with evil monsters and talking walls and things.
  • These Moors are changeable in their wills; —fill thy purse with money: —the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. Act I. Scene III. Othello, the Moor of Venice
  • At first, the cor anglais and clarinet enter with long, held notes, almost blending with the organ, but by the song's end, the whole quintet has joined, offering up countermelodies and some needed timbrel variety.
  • But the quintessential gold bug is an investor who expects every form of paper wealth to collapse, along with civilisation itself.
  • ‘We get about five to six quintals per acre of jowar which lasts for six months,’ says Belsare.
  • You know, someone who's as attractive as Peter, you know, quintessential look of an anchorperson, it sometimes is difficult - and I think it was difficult in Peter's case - to have people know where your heart is.
  • A hot dry wind stirred up small whirlwinds of dust and sand, forcing her to squint.
  • Through watery eyes, she squinted to see who her assailant was.
  • With squint-eyed innocence and un-metered awkwardness, Stewart delivers an unexpected hit performance that would later land him additional appearances in commercials and voice-over roles.
  • While some tunes might suggest the hanging of the ten, others evoke sombrero-sporting mariachis and pompadoured teds, Martinis in the Boom-Boom Room or riding shotgun with Squinty Clint.
  • In the field of bullfighting this verb is the quintessential factor in a well-fought corrida, and it has a lot to do with the rhythm of the bull's charge.
  • Usually I feel that period instrument groups present a more idiomatic picture of Classical era music, but I doubt that the interpretations of Quintett Momento Musicale can be improved upon.
  • Tunisia had strung a quintet across midfield, conceded territory and possession but bit on the counter and led in the eighth minute.
  • John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
  • (It also brings back Eric Millegan as the original "squint" - ern, Zack Addy, in happier times.) Philly.com - Latest Videos
  • The fiche was a bit worn, but you can still make out the copy, if you’re in a squinting mood. 11 – February – 2009 – The Bleat.
  • Sean Lamont heads a quintet of wing specialists who are vying for position in the Stade de France showdown.
  • I called on Cwasey, a shrimpy bespectacled boy with squinty eyes and a freshly shaved head. Dan Brown: The First Day of "The Great Expectations School" (Exclusive Book Excerpt)
  • Niels Abel (1802–29) proved that the general quintic cannot be solved by radicals. 1820
  • Online marketing course bar methaqualone we are quintillionth perfervid triturus foliation bar rage purposeless stingily at a instroke in sind bar zillion her, honestly not to let me ultrasonically. Rational Review
  • Quintus fumbled with the ceremonial toga of the Urban Prefect, thick with gold embroidery.
  • October 27th, 2006 at 12: 39 am paris hiton is ugly skinny and useless her eyes are too squinty and those boobs are fake shes soo vain and whoever said she was beautiful must be blind now catherine zeta jones is beautiful liv tyler is beauyiful lots of actresses are beautiful mbut paris not much of a looker at all elliosh Says: David Letterman Interviews Paris Hilton
  • He looks at Natasha, who squints her eyes and pouts, then laughs, hands on hips.
  • Since in vitro fertilization started, two decades ago, there has been an explosion of twins, triplets, quadruplets, even quintuplets.
  • _average_ novel of the third quarter of the century -- in a more than average but not of an extraordinary, transcendental, or quintessential condition -- Anthony Trollope is about as good a representative as can be found. The English Novel
  • Squinting at the sudden brightness, she hurried over to the watch tower and scaled the steep stairs.
  • The walls are etched with what appear to be silver murals of old Rome, although if you squint your eyes these runic designs could be haystacks in Iowa, or ice sculptures in old Quebec.
  • A quick squint at lunchtime allows residents of this upmarket pile to decide whether or not there is someone sufficiently interesting there to make the short walk down the Mound worthwhile.
  • Done in quintuplicate, at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty—eight. Treaty with Mexico
  • And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection. FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
  • Reading is memorized with the aid of murmur, mouthing the words subvocally as one turns the text over in one's memory; both Quintilian and Martianus Capella stress how murmur accompanies meditation. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • The sun was shining straight in her eyes which made her squint.
  • Such multiple gestations are rare, with 6,742 sets of triplets, 506 sets of quadruplets, and 77 sets of quintuplets or higher order pregnancies in 2000.
  • Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel.
  • Public transport patronage in Sydney and Melbourne more than quintupled between 1890 and 1930 but slumped in the 1930s.
  • I squinted, waiting as my eyes readjusted to the dim light.
  • He squinted, peering at it and trying to make out the figures.
  • You should have instead cited the "decommit" examples of DT's Pearlie Graves and Daquinta Jones, though they too would not have proved your desired point any more effectively. Maize n Brew
  • I pushed the covers away from my face, slowly, squinting into the light.
  • (For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.).
  • Up next was the 1990 Mount Mary Vineyard Lilydale Cabernets Quintets, a lighter but rewarding style of cabernet that showing very well with a secondary blackcurrant note, lovely delicacy and great precision with no greenness or herbaciousness. A historic tasting Down Under – Bin 60A, Grange, Hill of Grace | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • Aleppo weight, and 19 manas and one 4 part of Balsara, answereth the quintall of Aleppo, which is 494 roues, 8 ounces English, and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The sun was shining straight in her eyes which made her squint.
  • Sure, mustard is a quintessential Texas condiment. Texas potato salad, what is it? | Homesick Texan
  • But self-delusion is the quintessential attribute of all dictators. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound!
  • Schlafly Dry-Hopped APA (American pale ale) draws its flavor from Cascade and Chinook hops, two quintessential American strains noted for their citrusy and resiny qualities. Beer: Schlafly's D.C. connection
  • The house had been confiscated by Octavian during the wave of proscriptions in the aftermath of the Battle of Philippi from the family of Quintus Hortensius, the famous orator and great rival of Cicero who had amassed a fortune from his legal career and subsequently bequeathed the villa to his daughter Hortensia and son Quintus Hortensius Hortalus. Caesars’ Wives
  • Over the past decade, he turned a niche-player company into one of the drug industry's top performers - nearly quintupling its market value between 1996 and 2000.
  • Immediately, the musical and human chemistry of the quintet proved itself a winner, but there was always violence at their shows, mostly sparked by the singer.
  • The quintessence permeates the compost, soil and plants like astral perfume, and affects plant growth with subtle yet powerful forces of the cosmos.
  • The Alexander Doll Co. got the exclusive rights to Canada's identical Dionne quintuplets, who lived at Quintland, a tourist attraction, until the age of 9. Evolution of the American Doll
  • “” in the terrible scene where Strafford learns his doom, is only to be paralleled by the song of Mariana in “Measure for Measure,” wherein, likewise, is abduced in one thrilling poignant strain the quintessential part of the tense life of the whole play. Life of Robert Browning
  • The two manufactures produce about three Kantars, or fifteen or sixteen quintals per month of saltpetre, which is sold at about fifteen shillings per quintal. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
  • Then, the super prominence snapped, releasing a quintillion tons of plasma in a conical plum headed toward the Arcturian homeworld at nearly the speed of light. 365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Her eyes squint and her lips pulse making her laugh even more lovely to hear.
  • To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
  • He is rushed into hospital and has a quintuple heart bypass. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the 1980s and 1990s a number of single estates or quintas have also emerged, making high-quality varietal wines from grapes such as Alvarinho, Loureiro, and Avesso.
  • The object of the exercise was to strike the quintain hard enough to knock it all the way over, beyond its projecting braces, onto its shield backs.
  • Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel.
  • Commanding his Galatian troopers with valor and shrewdness, Quintus Poppaedius Silo penned Labienus in halfway through the pass across Mount Amanus called the Syrian Gates, and waited for Ventidius to bring up the legions. Antony and Cleopatra
  • Not your typical Rowland Hilder either ... quite often purchased as a 'Boots' print and featuring tip-carts, mangold wurzles, oast houses and wintery trees they're even disappearing from the car boot sales as the 'ironic decor' set pick up prints of The Green Girl along with the quintessentially English RH. A Drive in the Country
  • They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms. Manhood of Humanity.
  • That these four tracks were recorded live offers the listener an opportunity to hear this quintet in the raw, without the safety net of a producer demanding a retake.
  • Electricity is the quintessence of the ‘modern way of life’, but the electric power systems themselves are demanding, dangerous, and delicate.
  • The white sun cast shadows from the casaran trees to the west onto the shoulder of the road, but was high enough that Mykel did not have to squint when he looked westward. Alector's Choice
  • Ministers, who will formally announce the plan tomorrow, insist the quintuple jab is safe, and a positive development for parents because it replaces the whooping cough vaccine, which contained mercury.
  • If you squinted hard enough, they became streaks of red and green fire, a condition known as the preadolescent Doppler effect. The Metrognome and Other Stories
  • The shares have quintupled in the space of four years. Times, Sunday Times
  • P.S. Ho anche postato la clip OGG Theora per il filmato del dietro le quinte. No Fat Clips!!! : Oceansize
  • He pauses, squinting down at the camera's screen and jabbing various buttons. Times, Sunday Times
  • To me this children's-song and the fleeting and now plaintive echo of it, as "Voices from Within" -- "_Verso la sera, Di Primavera_" -- in the terrible scene where Strafford learns his doom, is only to be paralleled by the song of Mariana in "Measure for Measure," wherein, likewise, is abduced in one thrilling poignant strain the quintessential part of the tense life of the whole play. Life of Robert Browning
  • The cadenzas break down the quintet into low strings (cello and viola), high strings (the two violins), and piano.
  • The man's hooded eyes stared back, unblinking, into his own squinting, gaze.
  • When he took up the zinnias to place them in the bouquet, he held his head to one side the way I had and squinted, then stuck one zinnia where I had wanted it and the other around in back. Miz Pat Tackles The Duckling Killer « A Fly in Amber
  • Over the years, the quintet have regularly dampened speculation about any reunion. The Sun
  • He was the quintessential intellectual maverick - a man who thrived on bending the rules and violating the regulations.
  • It is a quintessential village high street with a couple of pubs, a shop and a hairdressers. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's what I call the quintessence of domestic economy. Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,
  • I squinted in the darkness, bardy able to pick him out against the foliage in his tigerstripes and camouflage war paint. Rogue Warrior
  • So, if you imagine, in the quintet, all five players have the leading voice at different points and you have to be confident enough and love the other four enough to trust them to take you where they want.
  • His tiny eyes were slitted, as he squinted at Adam in the dark.
  • The squints, or hagioscopes, were originally angled but were unfortunately straightened by the Victorians.
  • These are not the orange trees that give us vitamin C, but rather bitter orange trees or citrus aurantium biga radia —"one of the quintessential 'giving trees' of the perfume world," says David Seth Moltz, the nose behind D.S. Orange Blossoms
  • Her eyes squinted madly, trying to make out the manner of the commotion around them.
  • Euro 2004 has begun on the right note, as a quintessence of football skills.
  • Wachner is the quintessence of the driven, laser-focused American businesswoman.
  • Visitors can be entranced by the different sounds of a trio, quartet or quintet.
  • A surrogate mother in Phoenix, Arizona has given birth to quintuplets by caesarean section.
  • The first movement revolves around a haunting ostinato which forms the motto theme of the quintet (a typical Franckian device) and develops throughout the movement.
  • They plan a heist while passing themselves off as a string quintet. Times, Sunday Times
  • We've been playing for 25 years, and we played very intensively together, and then we invited people to join us, so I have luxuriated in trios and quartets and quintets.
  • He's always squinting at my female secretary as we talked about our business.
  • Madeira's hotels are outstanding, many of them converted quintas.
  • I heard a humming and the dozen fluorescent lights started to flicker on and I blinked, squinting at the bright light.
  • He squinted for a better look, and the angel squinched up her blue eyes, too.
  • This harmony between properties provides an uninterrupted period setting that is quintessential of the British countryside. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do Go back The quintessential question facing the modern movie biopic is one of distance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ivya grew closer and closer, squinting her eyes to make out the figure.
  • If I squint I can just make out a bejewelled monk on a throne.
  • Telluride icon and professional ski bum Captain Jack Carey has long symbolized the quintessential adventurer in all of us.
  • Among comments there: The pickle is quintessentially 'Heinz' and is emblematic of your history. Heinz ketchup spruces up label with a tomato
  • The San Francisco Chronicle described the two main characters as ‘two plain-spoken, quintessentially American subjects’.
  • Il dietro le quinte è stato prodotto, diretto e montato da Luanne Dietz, anche autrice delle fotografie. No Fat Clips!!! : That`s Magic: Behind the Scenes
  • The luminous light shone into his retinas and he squinted slightly.
  • Signed commercial invoice from the seller in quintuplicate.
  • He was gazing at me through squinting grey eyes, rather than deep brown orbs.
  • EverestL.A. rock quintette Everest is the sound of deep places. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 201
  • This year he got eight quintals of areca from his garden, which he sold for Rs.50,000, but even that was not enough to fulfil his interest commitments to the society.
  • The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere and guanashina, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.
  • In the afternoon the quintet, which is made up of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, gave a concert in Marden House.
  • They will have a civil ceremony at Ashton Memorial with a brass quintet playing in the background before moving on to a nearby hotel for their reception. Times, Sunday Times
  • He squinted and turned the pad of cloud notebook paper over, trying to read her handwriting.
  • The thing about being independent is that all the profits are quadruple, quintuple what someone on a major label would make.
  • Oddly enough, I had made identical calculations thirty-four years earlier for the colinear Earth-Moon Lagrange points ( "Stationary Orbits", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, December 1947) but I no longer trust my ability to solve quintic equations, even with the help of HAL, Jr., my trusty H/P 91OOA. 2010 Odyssey Two
  • Among the myriad of skills to be mastered, was tilting at the quintain.
  • My daughter was born 31 years ago, like many children, with a divergent squint.
  • Quintana glanced at the Saint again; but the Saint, who understood every word as easily as if it had been spoken in English, frowned back at him with the worried expression of a man who is trying hard to understand and failing in the attempt. The Saint in Action
  • This harmony between properties provides an uninterrupted period setting that is quintessential of the British countryside. Times, Sunday Times
  • When Confederates attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln responded by immediately quintupling the size of the U.S. Army, calling for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion.
  • Grizzled veterans will squint into the sun, look you up and down, and warn that it is definitely not a race for snivellers.
  • Outtrim, the Internet prodigy who cut the code for Hotdog in his loungeroom, was photographed in jeans, open-necked shirt and reversed baseball cap, the quintessential Web geek.
  • The contemporary music quintet was founded in August 1996.
  • He hadn't noticed how close his face was to the soft paper as he squinted his eyes to read the scripted writing.
  • Organ Pipe is quintessential Sonoran Desert terrain, a landscape of cactus and creosote bush interspersed with jagged mountains and laced with thickets of mesquite, ironwood, and palo verde trees.
  • Constructed with fire retardant cedar roof shingles and exterior walls made of rough-hewn lumber, it is the quintessential ski retreat.
  • Arlack possessed a most splendid squint with both eyes, so that it was often observed he would make a capital cook, as he could always keep one eye on the pot while he surveyed the intricacies of the chimney with the other; and, to complete the catalogue of his complexional recommendations, his face was absolutely furrowed, seamed and gashed until it had nearly lost a human shape by the pitiless assaults of the smallpox. Ralph Rashleigh
  • With its European style cafes and restaurants, murmuring waterfalls, and lush semi-tropical vegetation, an evening stroll along its shores is a quintessential San Antonio experience.
  • He stands there, squinting his eyes and pursing his lips, going on and on with such blatant lies.
  • Sostegno, “Dietro le quinte della Festa della Porchetta: Risvolti economici e organizzativi,” Il Carrobbio, 1985. Delizia!
  • Renowned for flexibility, performing familiar and less well-known chamber pieces, the ensemble pairs the supreme string quintets of Mozart and Mendelsshon.
  • He built a fort on Pigeon Island on which he perched his telescope; through which he squinted, discovering to unabated delight that his old French foe, Admiral De Grasse, was becalmed along with his naval fleet.
  • Specifically, it's the "quintic," one step up from the dread quadratic equation that gives so many kids fits in algebra. Analyze These!
  • I ran downstairs and along the passageway, with the consul and Terentia at my heels, and together with Quintus and the Sextus brothers we dragged away the chest and the couch and unbarred the door. CONSPIRATA
  • When Galactica hits Dolly Parton's high notes, her squinting eyes reflect the challenge, and the scatted breakdown of "Bye Bye Blackbird" by Rachelle Ferrell has the diva in a bent posture, shaking her clenched fists. Galactica performance perfectly in sync in Fringe Festival's 'Irrelevant Acts'
  • Dodd and Pendleton were the piquets on the Quinta's driveway and when they saluted him Christopher just touched the ivory heel of his riding crop to one of the tasselled peaks of his bicorne hat. Sharpe's Havoc
  • He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets.
  • As discussed above, the city is the quintessential home of Auster's version of the post-modern poet.
  • The dying embers of the fire flickered and he squinted to get a feel of his surroundings.
  • Fifteen cohorts were annihilated at Atuatuca, and another garrison commanded by Quintus Cicero only just saved by a relief column.
  • He was the quintessential intellectual maverick - a man who thrived on bending the rules and violating the regulations.
  • The four pages were in the tilt yard, where there stood a wooden figure, called a "quintain," which turned round upon an axis, and held a wooden sword in one hand and a buckler in the other. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune
  • We hurried out into the roasting midday sun, squinting through the haze at the stand-off on the next hilltop.
  • But the universities have become the chief promoters of that quintessentially human activity, inquiry for inquiry's sake. The Times Literary Supplement
  • In the same time period, the number of web pages swelled from 500 million to 3 to 8 billion, and the number of searches quintupled from 100 to 500 million.
  • The changeups start with 300 and Watchmen director Zack Snyder, who switches from male-on-male violence to trot out a quintet of lingerie-clad ass-kickers in Sucker Punch.
  • My eyes squinted up in pain and I briefly entertained the idea of spitting the food out and screaming loudly.
  • You've heard of the quintuplets born in California and the septuplets in Iowa, but what about the mom who recently gave birth to 18 in Utah?
  • Squinting, he read: ` DMV Cormorant, NE 78781. "Somebody's name, a place, a thing? CORMORANT
  • A long list of names yes, but there's nothing larger here than a quintet format.
  • In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew.
  • Yawning, he lifted his arm and squinted at the luminescent numbers of his watch. CORMORANT
  • Brown and Harris highlight the girl's success in coping with her premarital pregnancy, Quinton and Rutter her planning ability.
  • Paradoxically, however, critical discussions of these same films and their powerful physical effects also often suggest that they are the quintessence of cinema.

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