the protagonist, David Balfour, is "forced" "to drink about a gill" of brandy.
* In Melvyn Bragg's memoir Back in the Day, he recalls his grandfather in the pub with "a gill of bitter" in front of him.
* Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey Blood Hunt, Barman in the highlands tells two Englishmen that they sell whisky in quarter gills.

Music

*The cumulative song "The Barley Mow"

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