A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine: The court awards it, and the law doth give it.

Twenty-eight pounds are the fourth Of an hundred weight call'd gross; Four such quarters are the whole Of an hundred weight at most.

Ten pounds a year, a folding-bed, and a teapot!this was Henry's new formula for the cultivation of literature.

His career, however, had not been so profitable that an additional hundred pounds should be a thing of indifference; in fact, the sum seemed to be just what was needed to enable him to forsake active duty on the stage,for the patent was no sooner signed than the veteran retired upon his laurels.

Fifty pounds a year is a good pension for the old man.

"Seventeen and three-quarter pounds avoirdupoisthat's the correct weight.

CRILLY Three hundred pounds is a very severe loss.

Thy thousand pounds, Jack, is all thy own: for most heartily does she dislike ye allthee as much as any of the rest.

An' twenty-five pound' is a heap o' money for such a man as you.

It is said to be easy of digestion, and two pounds of the dry meal or six pounds of the fruit is the daily allowance for a laborer in tropical America.

A hundred thousand pounds was a great fortune in those days and in our then modest republic, and this was the sum my parents brought with them from Englanda heritage sufficiently large to have enriched a numerous family in America, but which was chiefly centred on one alone, as will be shown.

Four thousand pounds is a lot of brass.

'Will four hundred pounds be an adequate recompense?'

You ought to be very glad to get off, now you're going to settle down as a married man.' 'Think what two hundred pounds would be, Jemima;in the way of furniture.'

And now he was matched to fight with a heavy-weight, and every pound he had sweat off would have been an advantage to him!

Intent on the subject reducing it lower I found thirty pounds was the draught for each hour.

We know that 33,000 foot pounds is one horse power, and we see how easily about two-thirds of a horse power in heat units may be produced and lost in compressing one pound of air.

In intense excitement, who can eat yards of bread-and-butter, pounds of oatmeal-porridge, as has ever been my bucolic habit?

Seven pounds is, I believe, no unusual size.

His dry lips shaped the words, "How much?" "Two hundred pounds," was the answer.

At Toulouse and in Upper Languedoc the pound was only thirteen and a half ounces; at Marseilles, thirteen ounces; and at other places it even fell to twelve ounces.

should be made for loss by spill and imperfect construction, so that 1,500 pounds or 176 gallons per minute would be the probable outputover 253,000 gallons per day; or, for irrigating purposes, equal to a rainfall of over 1¼ inches in depth on 50 acres in one week.

Five thousand pounds a year was fabulous wealth to a man whose income heretofore had numbered as many hundreds.

"Five hundred pounds is not a great deal for portioning off a girl when that is to be the last that she is ever to have."

"Two hundred pounds is not a very big wad, and if we can take the boat home I reckon the salvage people would give me a good post.