quartern
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As if all the speeches of all the fools in Staffordshire would lower the quartern loaf!
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We have seen in some churches piles of fruit and vegetables that would furnish a shop, in addition to sheaves of corn and stacks of quartern loaves.
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This John Bull is hacked to make a Corsican and Yankee holiday, taxed at the bayonet's point, starved on bread at eighteenpence the quartern, and offered up as a sacrifice to a Bourbon "Bumble-head."
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"Now for a bite o' bread and butter," said Mother, sawing away at a quartern loaf.
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It may be stated roundly that an average quartern loaf in Great Britain is made from wheat grown in the following countries in the proportions named:— U.S.A.
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