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1
For breakfast I had coffee and a due proportion of
quartern
loaf
.
2
And I find that a
quartern
loaf
of wheaten bread, weighing 4lb.
3
The average price of the
quartern
loaf
had been ten-pence three-farthings through the year.
4
Also left there, with a
quartern
loaf
.
5
Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the
quartern
loaf
at one and ninepence.
6
A
quartern
loaf
weighed four pounds.
7
Bread had sold at a moderate rate all the year; the average price being eightpence halfpenny the
quartern
loaf
.
8
Yet, even so, the price of the
quartern
loaf
rose to more than fifteenpence, and we were brought to the verge of civil war.
9
On this the sergeant ordered in breakfast for us, in the shape of a half-
quartern
loaf
and two ounces of butter for every four recruits.
10
You are probably not aware that at bakers' shops in the poor quarters the price of the half-
quartern
loaf
varies sometimes from week to week.
11
Bottomley lays S. Coxall sixpennyworth that the price of a
quartern
loaf
will be as low as sevenpence the best sort in two months-24thOct.
12
The bread and cheese amounts to 540
quartern
loaves
and 470 pounds of cheese.
13
We drank each of us a bottle of porter, and finished our half-
quartern
loaves
with wonderful alacrity, Bill keeping us gladsome company.
14
Byron it was who, writing as though the trees sprouted
quartern
loaves
ready baked, said of it (The Island 2 11):
15
"It was piteous to see them," she said; "only July, and the
quartern
loaf
nearly three shillings, and meal four shillings a peck."
quartern
loaf
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