quartern

Example Sentences

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This John Bull is hacked to make a Corsican and Yankee holiday, taxed at the bayonet's point, starved on bread at eighteenpence the quartern, and offered up as a sacrifice to a Bourbon "Bumble-head."

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.

As if all the speeches of all the fools in Staffordshire would lower the quartern loaf!

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

The quartern loaf of 4 lb. or 64 oz. now costs 5d., wheat being very cheap.

From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

A paper bag containing half a quartern loaf was also given to each, and the contents rapidly disappeared.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

When Ben heard that, he gave his trousers one hitch, and calls for a quartern, drinks it off with a sigh, and leaves the house, believing it all to be true.

From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick