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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Herman Melville's work Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1st edition, 1847). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (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:Melville Omoo|chapter=The Hegira, or Flight|page=246|passage=Thinking that we were about to be taken up under the act for the suppression of vagrancy, we flew out of the house, sprang into a canoe before the door, and paddled with '''might and main''' over to the opposite side of the lake.}}; or
- {{RQ:Melville Omoo|The Hegira, or Flight|246|Thinking that we were about to be taken up under the act for the suppression of vagrancy, we flew out of the house, sprang into a canoe before the door, and paddled with '''might and main''' over to the opposite side of the lake.}}
Result:
- 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “The Hegira, or Flight”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 246:
  Thinking that we were about to be taken up under the act for the suppression of vagrancy, we flew out of the house, sprang into a canoe before the door, and paddled with might and main over to the opposite side of the lake.

Wikitext: {{RQ:Melville Omoo|chapter=Taloo Chapel.—Holding Court in Polynesia.|pages=305–306|pageref=306|passage=The missionaries have prepared a sort of penal tariff to facilitate judicial proceedings. {{...}} The judge being provided with a book, in which all these matters are cunningly arranged, the thing is vastly convenient. For instance: a crime is proved,—say, '''bigamy'''; turn to letter B.—and there you have it. '''Bigamy''':—forty days on the Broom Road, and twenty mats for the queen. Read the passage aloud, and sentence is pronounced.}}
Result:
- 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Taloo Chapel.—Holding Court in Polynesia.”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 305–306:
  The missionaries have prepared a sort of penal tariff to facilitate judicial proceedings. […] The judge being provided with a book, in which all these matters are cunningly arranged, the thing is vastly convenient. For instance: a crime is proved,—say, bigamy; turn to letter B.—and there you have it. Bigamy:—forty days on the Broom Road, and twenty mats for the queen. Read the passage aloud, and sentence is pronounced.