Template:RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Mark Twain's work The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1st edition, 1876). 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 chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. This parameter may be omitted if the page number is specified.
• |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:Twain Tom Sawyer|page=68|passage=The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this '''fool-hardy''' boy had lost his mind.}} (the template can determine the chapter number from the page number specified); or
  • {{RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer|chapter=VI|page=68|passage=The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this '''fool-hardy''' boy had lost his mind.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer|VI|68|The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this '''fool-hardy''' boy had lost his mind.}}
• Result:
  • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 68:

    The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this fool-hardy boy had lost his mind.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer|pages=129–130|pageref=129|passage=It was just so with my Joe—always full of his '''devilment''', and up to every kind of mischief, but he was just as unselfish and kind as he could be—and laws bless me, to think I went and whipped him for taking that cream, never once recollecting that I throwed it out myself because it was sour, and I never to see him again in this world, never, never, never, poor abused boy!}}
• Result:
  • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 129–130:

    It was just so with my Joe—always full of his devilment, and up to every kind of mischief, but he was just as unselfish and kind as he could be—and laws bless me, to think I went and whipped him for taking that cream, never once recollecting that I throwed it out myself because it was sour, and I never to see him again in this world, never, never, never, poor abused boy!