Usage examples:
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Agitation
of
the
negro
question
became
bad
form
in
the
North,
except
for
quadrennial
political
purposes.
Charles A. Beard in "Contemporary American History, 1877-1913".
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3.
When,
in
1876,
the
great
quadrennial
contest
for
the
Presidency
of
the
Union
again
recurred;
it
was
rightly
considered
one
of
the
most
momentous
crises
that
had
yet
occurred
in
American
history.
John W. Moore in "School History of North Carolina".
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It
is
the
celebration
of
the
first
century
of
a
nation's
life
that
engrosses
the
thoughts
of
millions
of
hearts,
and
between
that
great
jubilee
and
that
quadrennial
tempest-
in-
a-
teapot,
the
nomination,
who
but
a
few
lonely
wives
and
children
have
time
to
think
of
those
three
columns
far,
far
out
in
the
broad
Northwest,-
those
three
columns
of
regulars,
cavalry
and
infantry,
rough-
garbed,
bronzed
and
bearded,
steadily
closing
in
towards
the
wild
and
beautiful
region
along
the
northern
water-
shed
of
the
Big
Horn
Range,
where
ten
thousand
hostile
Indians
are
uneasily
watching
their
coming?
Charles King in "Marion's Faith.".
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The
need
for
more
frequent
consultation
with
the
Colonies
is
being
felt
with
increasing
force,
and
although
no
permanent
consultation
body
has
yet
been
created,
special
ad
hoc
conferences
have
recently
been
held-
for
Defence
in
1909,
and
for
Copyright
in
1910-
in
addition
to
the
quadrennial
meetings,
where
a
vast
amount
of
varied
topics
are
discussed,
and
the
most
valuable
decisions
arrived
at.
Erskine Childers in "The Framework of Home Rule".