quartern
Example Sentences
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What title to gormandize over the butcher's fat joints, and the baker's quartern loaves, if they who furnish them are left to gnaw bones, and live upon crumbs?
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
It is in these circumstances that the labouring artisan is driven to the lowest possible rate of wages, which is calculated simply upon the price of the quartern loaf.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
I bought a stale quartern loaf—I got a penny off it, being two days old; here's a nice piece of cheese; and onions cut up small will make a fine relish.
From Good Luck by L. T. Meade
"Now for a bite o' bread and butter," said Mother, sawing away at a quartern loaf.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
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
