quarterage

Example Sentences

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What did she care for a trifle like quarterage while she was able to support both herself and her husband?

From The Heroic Women of Early Indiana Methodism: An Address Delivered Before the Indiana Methodist Historical Society by Goodwin, T. A. (Thomas Aiken)

The quarterage in this Company is paid on the quantity of malt consumed by its members.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Is it possible that quarterage can mean taking boarders?

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen

They suddenly remembered two grievances, one was a grievance of land tenure, the other was that a troop of soldiers was kept at free quarterage.

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Caine, Hall, Sir

The boys pay a quarterage not exceeding £2.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter