Can't take even a pound of freight.

"But it's always just as it was that day on the Oklahoma, when the captain swore he wouldn't take on another pound.

In The Corner manhood was apt to be reckoned by the pound, and George was a giant.

The Southern planters, who can sell cotton with profit at ten cents per pound, cannot produce corn for less than one dollar per bushel, or tenfold the cost in the West, and in past years a dollar has been the customary price from North Carolina to Texas.

At Charleston, the stores which two years since were overflowing with merchandise, and the daily recipients, of entire cargoes, are utterly empty; and when we reach Richmond, we see sugar quoted at three-fourths of a dollar, coffee at two dollars, and tea at sixteen dollars per pound, broadcloth at fifty dollars per yard, while whiskey, worth at Cincinnati twenty cents per gallon, commands at Richmond six dollars.

It is rarely more than a pound and a half in weight, and is in season from September till March.

Pound the meat of the lobster to a smooth paste with the butter and seasoning, and add a few bread crumbs.

Beat the eggs, and make the whole mixture into the form of a lobster; pound the spawn, and sprinkle over it.

Pick the meat from the shell, and pound it in a mortar with the butter, and gradually add the mace and seasoning, well mixing the ingredients; beat all to a smooth paste, and add a little of the spawn; divide the mixture into pieces of an equal size, and shape them like cutlets.

Bone the anchovies, and pound them in a mortar to a paste, with 1 oz. of butter.

Blanch and pound the almonds, and put these, with the grated rind and strained juice of the lemons, to the other ingredients.

Blanch and pound the almonds in a mortar; mix them with the manna kroup; pour over these a pint of boiling milk, and let them steep for about 1/4 hour.

Blanch the chestnuts in boiling water, remove the husks, and pound them in a mortar until perfectly smooth, adding a few spoonfuls of syrup.

A POUND PLUM-PUDDING. 1329.

Stone the cherries, and pound the kernels in a mortar to a smooth paste; put the butter and flour into a saucepan; stir them over the fire until of a pale brown; then add the cherries, the pounded kernels, the wine, and the water.

So many seasons' effort, so many suns and rains to make a pound of wool!

a pound a game?

But my master hath taken many a fair pound Of your man Block; he was here to-day, sir, And emptied[500] two bottles of nippitate[501] sack.

Ay, that he is, and can spend pound for pound With thee, i'faith, wert richer than thou art.

Ay, that he is, and can spend pound for pound With thee, i'faith, wert richer than thou art.

His vixen relished them exceedingly and seemed never to tire of them, so that he increased his order first from one pound to three pounds and afterwards to five.

Happen this time to-morrow night you'll be safe back again with your 100 pound in your pocket.

JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, My Lord got rid of Sir John, and shewed how little he valued him, by putting his pigs in the pound.' I told Dr. Johnson I was in some difficulty how to act at Inverary.

" Well John Henry said to the Captain, I'm gonna take a little trip downtown Get me a thrity pound hammer with that nine foot handle I'll beat your steam drill down, Lord God I'll beat your steam drill down.

That if the living yerely doo arise To fortie pound, that then his yongest sonne Shall twentie have, and twentie thou hast wonne: 530 Thou hast it wonne, for it is of franke gift