It will therefore continue in its path and move round another quadrant of the circle without getting nearer to the surface.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
Nor was the bow without its share of hieroglyphics; on one side were displayed a bee-hive, a bale of cotton, and a crate of crockery; and on the other, a globe, an anchor, a quadrant, and a chart partly unrolled.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames
And she cut into the pie and helped the Colonel to a quadrant of it.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne