It grows to a foot in length, usually, sometimes to two feet and weighing seven or eight pounds, though its usual maximum weight is three or four pounds.
In the Northern states it hibernates, and reaches a maximum weight of six or eight pounds, while in the Gulf states, where it is active the year round, it is taken weighing twenty pounds or more.
I once caught one weighing twenty-five pounds in northern Wisconsin, and saw several a little heavier, one of fully twenty-eight pounds.
Ordinary black-bass rods and tackle are well suited for the pike-perch up to six or eight pounds, either for bait-fishing or fly-fishing.
For seven or eight pounds of beef, cut up about a quarter of a pound of butter.
Mix eight pounds of light sugar-house or New-Orleans molasses, eight pounds of water, one pound of powdered charcoal.
Take seven or eight poundsof the upper part of the round, cut off the coarse fat upon the side, and make deep incisions in every part.
Take a thick piece of flank, or, if most convenient, the thickest part of the round, weighing six or eight pounds, for a small family of four or five persons.
A further imposition of one farthing in the pound per week was fixed upon all servants receiving four pounds per annum as wages, and upwards to eight pounds a-year inclusive.
But to be life, and not slow death, thirty-three hogsheads of air must pass daily into the lungs, and twenty-eight pounds of blood journey from heart to lungs and back again three times in each hour.
Beef, from six to eight pounds, one hour and a half, or twelve minutes to the pound.
Put into a tub a bushel of red currants and a peck of white; squeeze them well, and let them drain through a sieve upon twenty-eight pounds of powdered sugar.
A small knuckle of veal and a piece of beef of about three pounds, seven or eight pounds of meat in all; potherbs as for any other soup.
Squeeze them through a cloth sieve; add twenty-eight pounds of moist sugar, and boil them together for half an hour.
This is a rich, dark fish, weighing from two to eight pounds' and in season in June, July and August.
Take six or eight pounds of the round or the face of the rump, and lard with quarter of a pound of salt pork.
The number of lots was fourteen thousand one hundred and seven, and the total amount realised nineteen thousand one hundred and forty-eight pounds.
This was acquired by Horace Walpole for forty-eight pounds, six shillings.
The canoe was one-eighth of an inch in thickness, and weighed fifty-eight pounds.
The boat weighed only fifty-eight pounds, and the man had a heft of only eighty pounds.
The second fortress, called St. Matthew, had three guns, ofeight pounds each.
The fifth, named La Plattaforma de la Conception, had only two guns, of eight pounds.
The boat weighed only fifty-eight pounds, and the man had a heft of only eighty pounds.
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