On Acton Common they also met two chariots with gentlemen and ladies in them and robbed them in money, watches and other things to the value of forty pounds.
A like reward of forty pounds was, by another Act in the same reign, given to such as shall apprehend any person convicted of any capital crime relating to the coin of this land.
At the present moment Miss Lushington's bill amounts to close on forty pounds, and if we add thirty more it will make seventy.
She perceived at once that Annie was right, and that the pearls were a very great bargain even at forty pounds; but she would not have been a true bargain-hunter if she did not try to bring Zick to accept lower terms.
The necklace is a great bargain even at forty pounds.
But the whole drugs which the best employed apothecary in a large market-town, will sell in a year, may not perhaps cost him above thirty or forty pounds.
Thirty or forty pounds a year cannot be considered as too great a recompence for the labour of a person so accomplished.
Forty pounds a-year is reckoned at present very good pay for a curate; and, notwithstanding this act of parliament, there are many curacies under twenty pounds a-year.
I will take my forty pounds; but the other two notes I must beg to return.
Heiser has taken one weighing twenty-two pounds and I have seen the dried flesh of one which must have weighed approximately forty pounds.
The smaller commonly attains a weight of twenty to forty pounds.
The gray snapper runs up to forty pounds in weight and makes a good fight.
It will also throw a light upon many parts of it, when the reader understands that it is addressed to a man who, despising fame and fortune, has retired early to happiness and obscurity, with an income of forty pounds a-year.
As he did not do so, nor show any signs of violence, she said, 'Yes, forty pounds.
Don't you think that I might go to Mr. Wingfield myself, and pay the three hundred and forty pounds, and so have done with the worry for ever?
Thirty or forty pounds a-year cannot be considered as too great a recompence for the labour of a person so accomplished.
Election shall not have an estate of Freehold in Land within Our said Province or Territory to the value of Forty Shillings per Annum at the least, or other estate to the value of Forty pounds Sterling .
While the men were preparing dinner and getting the seines and collecting outfit in readiness, I had some fine sport with jewfish, running from fifteen to forty pounds, on a ten-ounce rod.
These were the small fry, however, running from ten to forty pounds, but even at these weights they demanded the best skill of the angler, inasmuch as they were hooked in the mouth, and only occasionally could one be landed.
A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with 'forty pounds a year'.
Eight by eight to twelve inches, weight twenty to forty pounds.
The only departure he made from this custom was in the year of his sister's marriage, when he asked and got a sum of forty pounds, twenty of which he gave to her.
She had to explain about and pay off that forty pounds.
She found presently she was out of the dock and confronted with the alternative of being bound over in one surety for the sum of forty pounds--whatever that might mean or a month's imprisonment.
Carry away a Negro Man slave named Francisco, of the Value of One hundred pounds, three Dozen of shirts of the Value of forty pounds, a Cask of Brandy and Provisions of the Value of Thirty pounds.
Pyratically and Feloniously take and Carry away sundry Provisions to the Value of forty pounds.
Carry away a Negro Man Slave named Francisco, of the value of One hundred pounds, three Dozen of shirts of the value of forty pounds, one Cask of Brandy and Provisions of the value of thirty pounds.
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