Template:RQ:Besant Fifty Years Ago

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Walter Besant's work Fifty Years Ago (1st edition, 1888). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, “some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell”) rather than an actual use of it (for example, “we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset”), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Besant Fifty Years Ago|chapter=With the Middle Class|page=91|passage=There was a fiction in genteel families that the ladies of the house never did anything serious or serviceable after dinner; {{...}} Why they went through this elaborate pretence I have not the least idea, because everybody knew that every girl in the place was always making, '''mending''', cutting-out, basting, gusseting, trimming, turning, and contriving. How do you suppose that the solicitor's daughters made so brave a show on Sundays if they were not clever enough to make up things for themselves?}}; or
  • {{RQ:Besant Fifty Years Ago|With the Middle Class|91|There was a fiction in genteel families that the ladies of the house never did anything serious or serviceable after dinner; {{...}} Why they went through this elaborate pretence I have not the least idea, because everybody knew that every girl in the place was always making, '''mending''', cutting-out, basting, gusseting, trimming, turning, and contriving. How do you suppose that the solicitor's daughters made so brave a show on Sundays if they were not clever enough to make up things for themselves?}}
• Result:
  • 1888, Walter Besant, “With the Middle Class”, in Fifty Years Ago, London: Chatto & Windus, , →OCLC, page 91:

    There was a fiction in genteel families that the ladies of the house never did anything serious or serviceable after dinner; Why they went through this elaborate pretence I have not the least idea, because everybody knew that every girl in the place was always making, mending, cutting-out, basting, gusseting, trimming, turning, and contriving. How do you suppose that the solicitor's daughters made so brave a show on Sundays if they were not clever enough to make up things for themselves?