Three hundred and fifty pieces of roasting beefthree hundred and fifty pounds green teaditto bushels of red applesthree hundred and fifty pounds sugar candy?
I wait to see these apples andpounds of tea safe home first.
Judge of our dismay when we did receive it to find it more than twice that sum--four hundred and fifty-six pounds odd!
Still harder thirty pounds to pay appeared; Uncertain how to act, he hanging feared.
Or, if more pleasing, that you truly pay, The sum of thirty pounds without delay.
This particular case cost the union six hundred pounds to fight, and the point in dispute was whether the injured man was, or was not, to receive six shillings a week for five weeks.
That case where you fined me five pounds over an Airedale what tried to gobble up a tally-man.
He had paid sixty-five pounds for his wife's costs, and still owed forty-five pounds.
If you cast your eye down the police news you will many times come upon the case of a low-down man or woman who goes round collecting for a mission that does not exist, thereby cheating the well-disposed of a few pounds or shillings.
As between Cabinet Minister and cabman the relation of fine should be as two pounds to ninepence--that is to say, if the law in the police courts desires to treat rich and poor alike.
But the rich man pays his entrance fee of ten pounds and is a life member of the Bankruptcy Club.
People fail to the tune of five or six million pounds a year, but when you analyse the list of the insolvent you will not find many poor folk among them.
Thus, in the case of the man with thirty pounds of debt, the Treasury want three pounds money down before the creditors get anything.
Make the limit twenty pounds or whatever sum you please but clearly enact that sufficient chattels to furnish a reasonable house are exempt from execution.
Hence, a man weighing three hundred pounds would, if conveyed to the surface of the sun, weigh eight thousand four hundred pounds, or nearly three tons and three quarters.
With another five pounds in his hand, and a little warmth in his heart, for he was fond of his grandmother, he went out into Park Lane.
Besides, ten thousand poundsis a lump, and I'm not a commercial character.
Take this for your protegees," and he slipped a cheque for fifty pounds into her hand.
At all events they've turned thirty thousand pounds into a cool million between them in the course of their long lives.
And I, finding it not abhorrent to a sophisticated and well-trained conscience, and thinking you could well afford it, extracted a thousand pounds from your fortune.
I'm kind of responsible for him, and I've got sixty pounds of his money.
McPhail, who had borrowed ten pounds from Doggie, in order to see him through the hardships of the Front, established himself close by the bar and was drinking whisky.
At first, possessor of the ill-gotten thousand pounds and of considerable savings from a substantial salary, he had enjoyed the short wild riot of the Prodigal's life.
He had spent hundreds and hundreds of pounds over these futile dogs.
Let each man take three or four poundsof flesh and a supply of meal.
I bought a few pounds of tea, canned goods, cheese and fruit, which I sent by a keeper to my friends in stir.
I thought that if all the loons were the size of this one I wasn't going to have much show in that violent ward; for I weighed only one hundred and fifteen poundsat the time.
Who ever laid on a child a burden of a hundred pounds weight, under which he is sure to fall?
He placed him first under the care of the Cordeliers or Franciscan friars at Acqs, paying for his board and lodging the small pension of sixty French livres, that is, not six pounds English, a year.
The pumpkin was to be given to the men at the rate of one pound of pumpkin to twopounds of biscuits.
I've lost seven pounds in the last two weeks," sighed Jane.
I've been on my feet all day, and two hundred pounds is a good bit for two feet to carry round.
I had to give forty-seven pounds ten for it, not only because it was a speaking likeness of the late Lord Ironsides as a young man, but on account of the little "B.
Then he made up little stories, which he illustrated himself, something like the picture-books of the later Caldecott, and I found him a publisher, and he was soon able to put aside a few pounds and pay his debts.
When he would have settled his affairs and paid his small debts in Düsseldorf, he would have some ten or fifteen pounds to the good.
About a fortnight before the murder this sort of partnership was dissolved at the proposal of Simonetti, and some days after Avanzi made a claim on his late partner for the price of two pounds of hemp not accounted for.
On the wall you may read a list of the virtuous maidens who are to receive marriage portions of from 5 pounds downwards, on the occasion of the lottery being drawn at some religious festival.
An area accurately measured of one hundred and twenty feet long, and thirty feet wide, has been known to yield one hundred jars of oil, valued at about forty pounds sterling.
It usually weighs from five hundred to eight hundred pounds, but it is asserted that one has been taken of eight thousand pounds weight.
I have seen masses of fifty or sixtypounds of this flour, which resembles that of cassava.
He was offered four millions of reals (forty thousand pounds sterling) to surrender the fort of Montjuich, and a French steamer was put at his disposal to convey him away.
She said he loved me, and if I loved him well enough, it would be a noble thing to disregard the law, and he gave her seventy-five pounds for that.
I will give you a hundred pounds to buy dolls, if you will go back with me next week.
He took me abroad when he wanted to get rid of me, and left me in Paris with five pounds in my pocket; but it was enough to bring me back.
Ruggles, when Will hinted at this next day, "there's nothing keeps a man so safe as having two pounds a week and no more.
The horses used are only fit for the knacker's yard; they are contracted for at about six pounds each; on this occasion thirteen or fourteen were killed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cash; coinage; currency; gold; lucre; mintage; pelf; purse; scrip; silver; specie; sterling; wherewithal
