Sentence examples for quartern from inspiring English sources

The consistency would indeed have been porridge-like, an attribute it had quite lost by the time Dickens's Mrs. Cratchit produced hers looking "like a speckled cannonball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half of a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck in the top".

Dickens wrote of "the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy".

Or unless Mom and Dad are Anglophiles, given to serving a suet pudding at Christmas dinner -- "like a speckled cannonball, so hard and firm," as Dickens described it, "blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top".