Template:RQ:Doyle Memories and Adventures
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1924 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, Memories and Adventures, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC:
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Arthur Conan Doyle's work Memories and Adventures (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924); the 1st edition published in the same year (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924; →OCLC) is not currently available online. It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
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Examples
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{{RQ:Doyle Memories and Adventures|chapter=Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes|page=110|passage=Buried treasures are naturally among the problems which have come to Mr. [[w:Sherlock Holmes|[Sherlock] Holmes]]. One genuine case was accompanied by a diagram here reproduced. {{...}} Each [[Indiaman]] in those days had its own '''semaphore''' code, and it is conjectured that the three marks upon the left are signals from a three-armed '''semaphore'''.}}
; or{{RQ:Doyle Memories and Adventures|chapter=Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes|page=110|passage=Buried treasures are naturally among the problems which have come to Mr. [[w:Sherlock Holmes|[Sherlock] Holmes]]. One genuine case was accompanied by a diagram here reproduced. {{...}} Each [[Indiaman]] in those days had its own '''semaphore''' code, and it is conjectured that the three marks upon the left are signals from a three-armed '''semaphore'''.}}
- Result:
- 1924 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes”, in Memories and Adventures, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 110:
- Buried treasures are naturally among the problems which have come to Mr. [Sherlock] Holmes. One genuine case was accompanied by a diagram here reproduced. […] Each Indiaman in those days had its own semaphore code, and it is conjectured that the three marks upon the left are signals from a three-armed semaphore.
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