quartern

Example Sentences

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Phoebe, how are we to live with the quartern loaf at one and tenpence?

From Quality Street A Comedy by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

This adds six pounds of bread to the bushel, or nearly another quartern loaf and a half, making nearly fifteen quartern loaves out of the bushel of wheat.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William

Shop-windows were stoned that night in south and east London; but twenty-four hours later the price of the quartern loaf was 1s. 3d., and a man offering 1s. 2d. would go empty away.

From The Message by Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew)

Well, say the best is a penny a quartern more—and the wife seems so satisfied because she thinks she is saving.

From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville

I tasted it myself, because the municipality had made a great point of introducing it to the lower classes at twopence per quartern less than the first quality.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.