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.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
My food was of the simplest kind; and finding that I could not afford the expense of an eating-house, it consisted of a half-quartern loaf in the twenty-four hours, the one half of which was eaten in the morning; the other in the evening.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
Yet, even so, the price of the quartern loaf rose to more than fifteenpence, and we were brought to the verge of civil war.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose