Sentence examples for quartering the from inspiring English sources

I watched a black kite quartering the minefield and realised I was happy.

Barn owls are unmistakable: floating white ghosts, quartering the field, listening for voles, mice and shrews.

Quartering the nuts lengthwise with a chef's knife generally revealed kernels akin to blanched almonds.

Very often, it had to be agonizing: the stake and the fire, drawing and quartering, the cross and the nails.

The cardinal is particularly concerned with the various methods Insulomontanus will employ to put sinners to death, including "the stake, the wheel, the head vise, drawing and quartering, the slow hanging, suspension from the feet or carnal parts (only for men, since the female constitution does not lend itself to it), immersion in boiling oil, or stoning".

Nearing the head of the clough, I see a familiar shape perched on a boulder, a kestrel, which flops lazily off to one side, and then, as though getting a grip, moves more neatly westwards, quartering the ground over the Crow Stones.

"Every quarter the numbers get worse".

In the second quarter, the opposite occurred.

Quarter the cultivated strawberries.

Then, after five quarters, the report stopped.

Third quarter, the wheels come off.