The little chandler’s shop with the cracked bell behind the door, whose melancholy tinkling has been regulated by the demand for quarterns of sugar and half-ounces of coffee, is shutting up.
When in doubt whether to buy bread with it, or more meat, to make up the dinner with the meat which she had in the house, the baker called, and left three quarterns of bread as a present.
Thus, for several weeks, about 150 quarterns of bread were distributed weekly, besides what was given in flour, coals, and clothes.
A brother left two quarterns of bread at the BoysÂ’-Orphan-House, as a gift.
There were also given two quarterns of bread by one of the bakers, which made up the usual quantity.
I have known her to drink thirty-six half-quarterns of gin in a day; it is from her love of blue ruin she derives her name.
It was nearer one o'clock than twelve when Don Roque, who had exceeded by three quarterns his usual six, sallied forth with the other five frequenters of the confectioner's in a serried line to their different homes.
Excited by the murmur of applause, Don Benigno drank a few more quarterns than usual, and the chaplain would not let himself be outdone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarterns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
