half-quire
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He appears to be engaged partly in the degustation of an unappetizing lead pencil, and partly in the contemplation of a half-quire of notepaper.
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
I have taken another half sheet to finish my letter upon: so as my calculation of how far this half-quire p. 266is to spread over Time is defeated.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
Taking another half-quire, he went through with the same operation;—in vain.
From The Leavenworth Case by Green, Anna Katharine
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