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)

But beyond the regular "quarterage" they appreciated the need of "presents."

From Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er by Hitchcock, Elizabeth Arnold

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

The boys pay a quarterage not exceeding £2.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

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