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Last quarter

noun

The last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth.

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"Last quarter" Quotes from Famous Books

... obligations, only adds to their weight. You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength. When looking for the fulfillment of reasonable requirements, you will not be unmindful of the great changes which have occurred, even within the last quarter of a century, and the consequent augmentation and complexity of duties imposed in the administration both of your home and ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

... ever been a favourite one which has cropped up from time to time in the "bitty" literature of the last quarter of ...

— Dickens' London • Francis Miltoun

... of Army Form Z.3. I do hope this will facilitate your Department's investigations. Not for my sake. But I enclose last quarter's accounts from my landlord, butcher, baker, etc. Perhaps you will be good enough to guarantee my credit? You know how ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 • Various

... much care. At any rate I'll chance it." And off the boys ran to the racquet-court, Eric intending to occupy the last quarter of an hour before school-time in learning his lesson. Russell and he stood the other two, and they were very well matched. They had finished two splendid games, and each side had been victorious in turn, when Duncan, in the highest spirits, shouted, ...

— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar

... main love stories do smack of sensibility, and that he turned his hero into a mouthpiece for the opposition to the Tory ministries of the early years of George III. And it is perhaps true that all the characters, including Sir Pertinax, are more true to the theatre than to the actual life of the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Still, Sir Pertinax is vigorous, and the author's position ...

— The Man Of The World (1792) • Charles Macklin

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