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Last quarter   /læst kwˈɔrtər/   Listen
Last quarter

noun
1.
The last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth.





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"Last quarter" Quotes from Famous Books



... not easily made at the Cape," was the grave reply. "My father has been making his fortune for the last quarter of a century, and it's not made yet.—Why did you choose ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne
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... dragged out its blazing hours, their spirits languished, and they fell silent, full weary and listless. Towards the last quarter of the journey their road forsook the spacious, haggard plain and again entered a hilly country, but this time one wherein there was no lack either of water or of life: a green and fertile land parcelled into farms ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance
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... Colonel Edward Wigglesworth, mentioned in the text, an officer of the Revolution, highly esteemed by Washington, was Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, author of "The Day of Doom," published in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, and reprinted in London; a dreadfully dismal, but edifying poem, and not ...
— Old New England Traits • Anonymous
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... observer of agricultural conditions in 1893 finds that agricultural unrest was not peculiar to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but existed in all the more ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
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... of the great school of American poets that made the last quarter of a century brilliant, asked me in the White Mountains, one morning after prayers, in which I had given out Cowper's famous hymn about "The Fountain Filled with Blood," "Do you really believe there is a literal application of the blood of Christ to the soul?" My negative reply then ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage
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