Template:RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp
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1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote William Babington Maxwell's work The Mirror and the Lamp (1st edition, 1918). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|chapter=– the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|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).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- 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=onto 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.
Examples
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=XXXIX|page=307|passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her '''nosegay'''. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}; or{{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|XXXIX|307|At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her '''nosegay'''. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- Result:
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 307:
- At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=XII|pages=87–88|pageref=87|passage=In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha '''flares''' made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}} - Result:
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 87–88:
- In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.