quotum
Example Sentences
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Time's teetotum, If you spin it, Give its quotum Once a minute: I'll go bail You hit the nail, And if you fail The deuce is in it!
From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
The marvel is not that every year saw its quotum of steamers burned to the water's edge, but, rather, that the quota were proportionately so small.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
When man destroys the hawks which, normally, reduce the smaller fry of birds to their allotted quotum in the Scheme of Things, however, the smaller fry multiply inordinately and devour his cherries and his corn.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
Washington seems to have cherished no personal ill-will for Muse's conduct, and when the division of the "bounty lands" was being pushed, he used his influence that the broken officer should receive a quotum.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford
Time's teetotum, If you spin it, Gives it quotum Once a minute.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
