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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Buchan's work The Thirty-Nine Steps (1st collected edition, 1915). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the HathiTrust Digital Library (archived 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:Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps|chapter=The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels|page=38|passage=I had lied to Paddock about him, and the whole thing looked desperately fishy. If I '''made a clean breast''' of it and told the police everything he had told me, they would simply laugh at me.}}; or
- {{RQ:Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps|The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels|38|I had lied to Paddock about him, and the whole thing looked desperately fishy. If I '''made a clean breast''' of it and told the police everything he had told me, they would simply laugh at me.}}
Result:
- 1915 August–September, John Buchan, “The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels”, in The Thirty-Nine Steps, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published October 1915, →OCLC, page 38:
  I had lied to Paddock about him, and the whole thing looked desperately fishy. If I made a clean breast of it and told the police everything he had told me, they would simply laugh at me.

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