In twenty minutes they had fifteen beautiful fish, none weighing less than half a pound, safely deposited on the broad flat rock at the head of the rapids.

If I want a bed to lie in, I have to wait till the coming of the tobacco convoy, and go down to the wharves and pay a hundred pounds of sweet-scented for a thing you would buy in the Candleriggs for twenty shillings.

I've done't, I've done't; Pox on him, it cost me five hundred pounds though: Here 'tis, my Solicitor brought it me this Evening.

After this I purchased a negro man, for no other reason than to oblige him, and gave him sixty pounds.

Mix 1/2 pound of flour with 1/2 pound of fresh butter; add 1/4 pound of sugar, 1 egg and 1 beaten yolk, 1 tablespoonful of sweet cream and some grated lemon peel.

In that six months' time I cut and corded four hundred cords of wood, besides threshing out seventy-five bushels of grain, and received of my wages down only twenty pounds, which left remaining a larger sum.

To make you 'mends, Sir, I bring you the certain News of the death of Sir Thomas Gayman, your Uncle, who has left you Two thousand pounds a year Gay.

The cold-blooded devil meant it too, for he was raging mad at getting only five hundred pounds off the brig.

This man had a good deal of influence with the Tagish tribe, of whom the greater number were then in the neighborhood where he resided, trying to get some odd jobs of work, and I sent him to the head of the inlet to try and induce the Tagish Indians to undertake the transportation, offering them $5 per hundred pounds.

A great deal of private charity exists, one firm having spent 1400 pounds in money, exclusive of weekly doles of bread.

You have lost your pound of flesh.

In the Life of ADDISON we find an unpleasing account of his having lent Steele a hundred pounds, and 'reclaimed his loan by an execution.'

He brought into the treasury one hundred and twenty-three thousand pounds of silver.

[Nothing is more difficult than to give the average prices of Fish, inasmuch as a few hours of bad weather at sea will, in the space of one day, cause such a difference in its supply, that the same fisha turbot for instancewhich may be bought to-day for six or seven shillings, will, to-morrow, be, in the London markets, worth, perhaps, almost as many pounds.

They were very large and were strongly built, being capable of carrying seven thousand pounds of freight each.

The hardened scoundrel took with him the few pounds of her savings which she kept in her bedroom, and had even emptied the contents of the till of the few shillings and coppers it contained.

Shortly afterward his attention was attracted to a crowd of angry bees that were flying excitedly about his head, when he discovered that he was sitting upon their hive, which was found to contain more than 200 pounds of honey.

No?Very well, then: send half a pound of cloves to his house before night.

Sixty pounds of potatoes, yielding eight pounds of dry starch, will produce seven and a half pounds of sugar.

She had gained nearly ten pounds since the day of the great victory.

And, gentlemen, this rate of four shillings and sixpence about to be levied, which ought to yield about 32,000 pounds, it is calculated will not yield 24,000 pounds.

When Morose is past all hope the nephew offers to release him from his wife and her noisy friends if he will allow him five hundred pounds a year.

He draws a cheque just when he wants a few pounds, instead of carrying five-pound notes about with him.

The fleeces of the ewes average eight pounds, and sell for two dollars each.

The jackal said to the fox: "Swear to me that the wagtail owes me a pound of butter.