The governor's favourite occupation is hunting Indians: a short time since he slaughtered forty-eight, and sold the children at the rate of three or four pounds apiece.
Very few animals can be maintained in such a place: on the ensuing morning I hired with difficulty, at the price of four pounds sterling, two mules and a guide to take me to the nitrate of soda works.
The stirrups are on the same scale, each consisting of a square, carved block of wood, hollowed out, yet weighing three or four pounds.
The exercise, coupled with the free perspiration induced by labor in the heated quarters, lowered his weight to one hundred and eighty-four pounds.
Placing the average weight of an adult man at one hundred and forty-four pounds, the average daily amount of food and drink needed would be six pounds, or about one-twenty-fourth the weight of his body.
In one week he had reduced his weight thirty pounds, and in six months he had lost one hundred and thirty-four pounds.
Beat some white of egg, (one white to four pounds of sugar,) and when it is a very stiff froth, stir it gradually into the water.
Melt the sugar in the liquid, and stir into it gradually some beaten white of egg; allowing one white to four pounds of sugar.
Afterwards strain them, and allow to each pint of the liquid, a pound of the best loaf-sugar, and stir in a little beaten white of egg; one white to four pounds of sugar.
Four pounds and a half of salt are likewise put into the tub, and a pailful of hot water.
From two to four pounds of good chloride of lime are reckoned sufficient to bleach one hundred weight of rags.
Four pounds of tartaric acid, Four pounds of nitrate of lead; thicken the solution with Six pounds of pipe-clay, and three pounds of gum.
Mix this, while warm, into two gallons or four pounds of flour, adding at the same time the usual quantity of yeast.
The original value of salt is about fifteen cents the measured bushel of eighty-four pounds.
Then, the tariff laws have deprived the consumer of thirty-four pounds in the bushel, by substituting weight for measure, and that weight a false one.
The second effect would be, a return to the measured bushel, by getting rid of the tariff regulation, which substituted weight for measure, and reduced eighty-four pounds to fifty.
Prepare a simple wine after the manner of making gooseberry wine, employing one pound of raisins, four pounds of sugar, and one ounce of cream of tartar to the gallon of water.
Allow one gallon of soft, filtered, or distilled water; four pounds of sugar, previously made into a syrup with part of the water; and one and a quarter ounces of cream of tartar.
Among the estates bequeathed were the palace and park of Nonsuch, which in 1590 Lord Lumley conveyed to the Queen in exchange for lands of the yearly value of five hundred and thirty-four pounds.
They ate at first sixty-four pounds, then fifty-eight pounds, and increased in weight thirty pounds.
The largest of these masses weighed one hundred and thirty-four pounds, of which it was calculated that fully one hundred and twenty-six pounds consisted of solid gold!
We found them in excellent spirits, for at last they had hit upon a rich vein, which had for three days been yielding an average of four pounds weight a day, and was not yet exhausted.
Imagine boots, and they very second-rate ones, at four pounds a pair.
The pips of the fruit are large, often an inch over; and it attains a large size, weighing from three to four pounds.
The fruit grows to a large size, often weighing from three to four pounds.
Their fruit weigh from one to four pounds, and are almost exclusively of the Queen Pine.
Here is your money," said the matron; "four pounds five.
Snow Queen had beaten Shoemaker at four pounds, and Shoemaker had beaten Wanderer at seven pounds.
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