Gold here measures every thing: a lady's charms are by weight, "a pood is a good girl, and two or three poods are twice or thrice as good as a wife.
This province alone has, in this year, yielded five hundred poods of gold.
It exported ten thousand poods of bean cake, and eleven times that quantity of a peculiar sea-grass eaten by the Celestials.
In 1865 Posyet was visited by ten merchant vessels; it exported fifteen thousand poods of beche de mer, the little fish formerly the monopoly of the Feejees, and of which John Chinaman is very fond.
The principal articles cultivated were wheat, rye, hemp, and garden vegetables, and he thought the grain product of 1866 in his district would be thirty thousand poods of wheat and the same of rye.
About thirty thousand poodsof copper are produced annually in this district, but none of the copper zavods are at Barnaool.
The production of silver in the Altai mines is about a thousand and fifty poods annually, or forty thousand pounds avoirdupois.
Near our landing was a mill, where a man, a boy, and a horse were manufacturing meal at the rate of seven poodsor 280 pounds a day.
The smelting process continues four months of each year, and during this time about twelve hundred poods of gold are melted and cast into bars.
About thirty poods of gold are extracted from every thousand poods of silver after the treasure reaches St. Petersburg.
The pay-dirt is very rich, and the estimates of its yield are stated at so many zolotniks of gold for a hundred poods of earth.
The normal production per man is given as 750 poods per month.
He said to his father: 'Here's this piece of iron; take it to a smith, and let him make me a mace of seven poods weight.
Every two men must have a net, a dog, and several poodsof provisions for the dog, a bed and covering, a vessel for preparing their bread, and a vessel to hold leaven.
He swung the twenty poods of horse-hair on high and struck the charger with it.
Tremsin stood at the edge of the shore holding the twenty poods of horse-hair ready in his hands.
I will swim to the shore and he will follow me, and as soon as he comes out from the water do you be standing ready and strike him upon the head with the twenty poods of horse-hair.
Tremsin went to the town and bought the twenty hides; he bought the twenty poods of tar and the twenty poods of horse-hair.
Then the gray steed bade Tremsin go to the town and buy twenty hides, twenty poods of tar and twenty poods of horse-hair.
But Ivan and his brothers threw three poods of salt into her mouth.
Well, Ivan undertook to kill that Snake, so he said to his father, "Father, make me a mace five poods in weight.
Ivan went home and told his father to make him a third mace, one of fifteen poods weight.
For twelve whole years Ivan lay among the ashes from the stove; but then he arose, and shook himself, so that six poods of ashes[75] fell off from him.
The amounts of the Pennsylvanian and Baku annual outputs are at present equal--namely, about 250 millionpoods (4 million tons).
Thus, ten million poods of fish were caught last year, but there were no means of bringing them from the fisheries to the great industrial centres where they were most needed.
Then we have over a million poods of copper, ready for export on the same conditions.
The prince and Ivan Golik drove the pigs into their sty, and then Ivan Golik said, "Brother, get me twenty poods of hemp and twenty poods of pitch, and bring them to me in the garden.
Tremsin struck him full on the forehead with the twenty poods of hair, and immediately he stood stock still.
Then Ivan Golik made him a huge whip of the twenty poods of hemp and the twenty poods of tar.
He took the twenty-five poods weight of iron, heated it red hot, and turned it on the anvil while the blacksmiths pounded with their hammers.
Run quickly through the pine woods and gather one hundred poods of pitch, and bring it here.
The devils rushed through the pine woods, collected three hundred poods of pitch, and brought it to the soldier.
Go quickly to the blacksmiths, order them to make for thee an iron hammer three poods in weight, and when thou art sitting on the stallion hold firmly and beat him on the head with the iron hammer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
