1.  A discussion I overheard concerned the merits of an airing cupboard as winter quarters for fly-traps.

2.  A flat-calm water, clear sky and a bright quarter moon are not the sort of conditions we associate with good catches.

3.  A high concrete wall continues for about a quarter of a mile.

4.  A lowering of standards is generally noted, however, in the last quarter century.

5.  A new edition, now under development will be out in the third quarter.

6.  A plan is taking shape, and it arouses obvious enthusiasm in some quarters.

7.  A quarter of all workers admit to taking time off when they are not ill.

8.  A rumor spread that whites were going to burn and attack the black quarter, so the blacks prepared for an invasion.