The deck-officers, then as now, were sons of gentlemen, were members of an ancient and honourable service, a service included among that select quaternity, to be outside of which was to be a nonentity-the Navy, the Army, the Church, and the Bar.
"An Ocean Tramp"
William McFee
At the same time, there was one of the happy quaternity who, from his years on the hills, and his services in times of trial and danger, and one thing and another, fell always, and with the finest humility too, into the foremost place, and his name, as you have already heard, was Knowledge.
"Bunyan Characters First Series"
Alexander Whyte