It is said to have had the effect desired, and that "no man or woman was ever hanged after this for passing forged one-pound Bank of England notes.
Our rations were not abundant while at Taylorsville; one pint of unsieved meal and a quarter of a pound of bacon per day.
It was a trout, perhaps a pound and a half in weight.
I had about a quarter of a pound of grated nutmeg in one hand, and as much pounded cinnamon in the other.
I guess they don't know that they are not throwing any dust in our eyes," muttered Rob, as he dug his spurs in deep, and his pony answered with every pound of speed in its active little body.
Well, that rope held a six-hundred-pound steer, so I guess it'll stand his weight.
I do not intend that this journey should break your five pound note.
This year he hoped to send Jane a five pound note on Midsummer Day, and in a year or two he had the prospect of a large salary.
I could not but conclude, from the way Mrs. Hicking let the baby pound her, that she was stronger than she had pretended.
How could I but despise a fellow who would be thus abject for a pound a week?
Not many hours before the ration to each man of the garrison had been half a pound of tallow and three-quarters of a pound of salted hide.
Jest thenk o' a gittin' a dollar and a half a pound fer terbaccer!
I reckon you want us to keep on eatin' corn bread and greens ever' day, and let you keep that hide of yours plumped out withpound cake, turkey and ice cream, do you?
Add three tablespoons of melted butter, one teaspoon of mustard, salt and pepper and lastly one half pound of grated cheese.
Rub one pound butter and one and one half pounds sugar to a cream, add eight eggs and beat.
Wash and cut up one half bushel of tomatoes and six onions, mix with two pounds brown sugar, one fourth pound whole black peppers, one fourth pound each allspice and of salt, one ounce of cloves, cayenne pepper to suit taste.
Dressing: One gallon of vinegar, two pounds of brown sugar, one pound mustard, one cup of flour.
His spirits, owing to the ten-pound note which lay in his breast pocket, were cheerful.
I suppose now I may put you down for a pound the same as last year?
If you were to pour a poundof molten lead and a pound of molten iron, each at the temperature of its melting point, upon two blocks of ice, which would melt the most ice, and why?
Buckmaster died, leaving nothink; nothink except four ugly daughters by Miss Slamcoe: and her forty pound a year was rayther a narrow income for one of her appytite and pretensions.
My Lady Griffin's lodging was at forty pound a week, in a grand sweet of rooms in the Plas Vandome at Paris.
Fust, they playd crown pints, and a pound the bett.
There wasn't a bottle of wine that we didn't get a glass out of, nor a pound of sugar that we didn't have some lumps of it.
A thousand pound was settled on her; and she was as high and mighty as if it had been a millium.
So much pleased that master sent him a ten-pound noat, and his complymints.
I igsept the eighty pound a year; knowing that I shall ave plenty of time for pursuing my littery career, and hoping some day to set on that same bentch of barranites, which is deckarated by the presnts of my honrabble friend.
They filed out of the garden by the snoring pig-pound and the crooning hen-house, to the shed where Middenboro the old lawn-mower pony lives.
I was told to act for our principal, during the absence of the sleeping partner; to keep you all in your places, and make you stick to your work; and especially to remember that one ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
Above all things, remember that rigid probity, and the strictest punctuality in meeting payments, are the very soul of business, and that an ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
