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Example sentences for "eighty pounds"

  • We went on in silence for a few moments, and came to the rustic bridge just above the artificial grotto through which the water ran out into the park, dark and swift in its narrow channel.

  • This is the place," said the widow, "and I do give meals if there is enough in the house and everything comes handy.

  • It is a very old house, and the greater part of it was originally a castle, strongly fortified, and surrounded by a steep moat supplied with abundant water from the hills by a hidden aqueduct.

  • I was born in the old place where my father, and his father, and all his predecessors had been born, beyond the memory of man.

  • It often reaches a length of six feet and a weight of sixty to eighty pounds.

  • According to Pallas, it sometimes reaches a weight of eighty pounds.

  • It reaches a much larger size than any Salvelinus, specimens of from fifteen to twenty pounds weight being not uncommon, while it occasionally attains a weight of fifty to eighty pounds.

  • It is one of the best food-fishes of Australia, reaching a weight of sixty to eighty pounds.

  • He carried in the procession nine thousand three hundred and twenty pounds' weight of silver, eighty pounds' weight of gold, and two golden crowns of the weight of sixty-seven pounds.

  • When Hilary returned to her sisters that day there was no longer any fear of public exposure; she had the receipted bill in her hand, and she was Miss Balquidder's debtor to the extent of eighty pounds.

  • To maintain two ladies and pay a debt of eighty pounds out of one hundred a year is simply impossible.

  • When she did--when she found that it was in plain terms a gift or loan of eighty pounds offered by a person almost a stranger, she was at first quite bewildered.

  • I am not going to shut myself up in a country-house, and scribble for an ailing, fractious old man, for a pittance of eighty pounds a year.

  • You will have a salary of eighty pounds, and live in the house of course.

  • Eighty pounds, and a position as secretary, with free quarters at the Castle!

  • Those houses in King's Close are going to be eighty pounds a year, and what do you think, Mrs. Toller is going to take one!

  • Those houses in King's Close are going to be eighty pounds a year, and what do you think, Mrs. Toller is going to take one.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attack them; business done; clear profit; colour painting; dative case; derived from; eighty acres; eighty days; eighty feet; eighty leagues; eighty miles; eighty pounds; eighty yards; eighty years; hath broken; last arrived; means easy; not being; order from the king; our holy; passing over; political questions; recover from; relative pronoun; slide valve; then added