Variation: I stopped on the way to have the old half-quartern. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Dilly Dally (My Old Man)] Reference
Treacle (common), 0.25 lb. Rum, a wineglassful or 0.5 quartern. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
In all these houses gin, moreover, was sold at a penny the quartern. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
Shop, and drink a quartern of Cinamon water, Clove-water, or Aqua mirabilis. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
Eight quartern loaves, cottage-size, black-crusted, were handed in at the door. From Wordnik.com. [Cider With Rosie]
I must just put this safe by, and then I'll go and wet my lips with a quartern o 'mountain dew. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
He rolled into a gin-shop, and called for 'a quartern and two outs, 'tendering Paul's coin in payment. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Green, with her accustomed liberality, sent out for a quartern of gin and a quarter of an ounce of brown rappee. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841] Reference
'E goes for that stale quartern like the pore prodigal gentleman with the' usks, but I've got a treat for 'im, that there card put it in my' ead. From Wordnik.com. [Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts] Reference
I just heaved him up, and got him to a door-step, and then I fetched him a quartern o 'gin, and he got a little better; and then I helped him here. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
With three drams to the quartern, that moment serv'd out. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
"Half a quartern," stammered the boy, in a frightened voice. From Wordnik.com. [What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales] Reference
"Only half a quartern," stammered the boy in a frightened voice. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
The drag Fiddler can toss off a quartern of Max without making a wry mug. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
The bread and cheese amounts to 540 quartern loaves and 470 pounds of cheese. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
And this yere was first the roial, half roial, and quartern aungel, and aungellet of golde. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
At "Dirty Dick's" you can get a quartern of port for threepence, and gin is practically given away. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Byron it was who, writing as though the trees sprouted quartern loaves ready baked, said of it (The Island 2 11). From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference
We drank each of us a bottle of porter, and finished our half-quartern loaves with wonderful alacrity, Bill keeping us gladsome company. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
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