quartern
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And this yere was first the roial, half roial, and quartern aungel, and aungellet of golde.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
As if all the speeches of all the fools in Staffordshire would lower the quartern loaf!
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
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 Charles Maurice Davies
He had just bailed out the boat, when stooping down, he put his hand in, and, feeling round, discovered to his great joy a large piece of bread, the best part of a quartern loaf.
From Adrift in a Boat by William Henry Giles Kingston
She lived on fragments of a quartern loaf and water 'in a pitcher,' with the mince-pie bought for her naughty little brother.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
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