Pounds

Examples

• It's a hundred and ten pounds, the deuce take it! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Weight of gun, 6,170 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some pounds, odd shillings, and halfpence, I think, were mentioned. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• My dear Miss Summerson, said Richard in a whisper, I have ten pounds that I received from Mr. Kenge. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I found in it two hundred pounds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That you had given a hundred pounds yesterday was with him no reason why you should not give two hundred to-day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His securities are bound in one thousand pounds to the society, which they will pay, but we are like to lose the rest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And if you come to gain, my wife's death would be ten thousand pounds in your wife's pocket. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In that case the steady pull on the balance will be one half the weight of the roller; or a force of 6 pounds will suffice to raise the 12-pound roller. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He laid two of Thomasin's guineas, and the reddleman his two pounds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I suppose we have about a hundred and seventy pounds a year of our own. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It's some time since I was articled, but the payment of that hundred pounds was a great pull. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The annual production of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania is more than 86,000,000 tons of 2,240 pounds, valued at the mines at $198,000,000. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This gun and carriage break up into four loads of approximately 200 pounds each. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I made ten pounds, clear, out of Coavinses' business. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Some of these were dated ten years back, too, and one was quite a fresh one--a note for a thousand pounds which Lord Steyne had given her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To be sure, said she, it is better than parting with fifteen hundred pounds at once. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It weighs 272,000 pounds, with tender 70 feet long, and has a draw-bar pull of 30,700 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I think twelve thousand pounds is the sum that I owe you, is it not? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His property in money amounted to nearly three thousand pounds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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