a-quarter

Stepping softly down the stairs so as not to wake his wife and sons, driving his Electra deuce - and - a-quarter down 16th Street, headlights on, one cigaretted hand dangling out the window, the road clear of traffic.

Excerpt: The Turnaround by George Pelecanos 2008

THE PINE WOODS Psychiatric Facility, a New York State­ run institution, was in Lafayetteville, about an hour-and - a-quarter drive heading north from Westchester.

Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005

The slot under the table into which the vibrating bar passed when the leaf was lowered was an inch and a-quarter in depth.

Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission

Fifteen millions 'worth of agricultural produce has disappeared; prices of wheat have risen in consequence to 80s. a-quarter, and oats in a still higher proportion; and an alarming drain upon the metallic resources of the country taken place.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Wheat was six shillings a-quarter; that would be, according to our scale, two shillings and three-pence a-bushel.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 Various

Hence, according to his estimate of the money required for the coming year, there would be a million and a-quarter of it diverted from its intended purpose -- the relief of the destitute.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

The length of the base is five inches; breadth of the same one inch and a-quarter.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Divide the loaf into four equal-sized pieces, and soak them in boiling-water for twenty minutes, then squeeze out the water, and put the bread into a saucepan with the milk, butter, sugar, lemon-peel, and salt, and stir all together on the fire till it boils; next add the beaten eggs and the currants; pour the pudding into a proper sized greased baking-dish, and bake it for an hour and a-quarter.

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli

The bowl is one inch and a-quarter high, slightly tapering upwards, but flaring near the top.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Here is a scarf, containing twelve miles and a-half of thread, three millions four hundred and seventy-five stitches, is nine feet ten inches long, three feet wide, and weighs only five ounces and a-quarter; -- that came from Ireland.

The World's Fair Anonymous