Template:RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan HMS Pinafore

1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I Was a Lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], →OCLC, page 10:

When I was a lad I served a term
As office boy to an attorney's firm.

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Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Gilbert and Sullivan's work H.M.S. Pinafore. It may be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Book Search.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |song= – optional: the name of the song quoted from.
• |2= or |page= – optional: the number of the page to link to at Google Book Search.
• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – The passage to be 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.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan HMS Pinafore|song=When I Was a Lad|page=10|passage=When I was a lad I served a term<br>As '''office boy''' to an attorney's firm.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan HMS Pinafore|When I Was a Lad|10|When I was a lad I served a term<br>As '''office boy''' to an attorney's firm.}}
• Result:
  • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I Was a Lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], →OCLC, page 10:

    When I was a lad I served a term
    As office boy to an attorney's firm.