quartern
Example Sentences
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The quartern loaf of 4 lb. or 64 oz. now costs 5d., wheat being very cheap.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
The price of the quartern loaf rose to sixpence, in place of fivepence; but the wages of labourers on the land rose by nearly 25 per cent., and the demand exceeded the supply.
From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock
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
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 William Cobbett
