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Sentences ending with pounds

By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. [9]
To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a meridian and multiply by 6 1/2 pounds. [5]
When Dr. Leiden was still coming twice a day to Gloucester Street, Mr. Tom must needs get into a scrape with one of the ladies of the theatre, and come to me in the Circle chambers for one hundred pounds. [9]
He had lost two pounds. [6]
I have placed to your credit in the Bank of Ireland a thousand pounds. [11]
I landed in this country with my little fortune of two thousand pounds. [11]
In noblemen's houses there was abundance of arras, rich hangings of tapestry, and silver vessels, plate often to the value of one thousand and two thousand pounds. [4]
He gave Kingsley the thousand pounds. [11]
He caught up the glass of champagne and dashed it upon the fine prayer-rug which Shelek Pasha had, with a kourbash, collected for taxes from a Greek merchant back from Tiflis--the rug worth five hundred English pounds, the taxes but twenty Turkish pounds. [11]
He gave me ten thousand pounds. [11]

Short sentences using pounds

He weighed ten pounds. [4]
I bought ten pounds. [2]
Lemme have fifty pounds, Richard. [9]
It was fifty pounds altogether. [11]
Why, fifty pounds, perhaps. [11]
See, pounds of gold! [13]
Ten pounds down. [12]
Five-and-thirty pounds! [12]

Sentences containing pounds two or more times

Suppose one of your journeymen goes out and buys the following articles: "1 pound of salt; 1 dozen eggs; 1 dozen pints of beer; 1 bushel of wheat; 1 tow-linen suit; 5 pounds of beef; 5 pounds of mutton. [5]
The passengers of the packet were assessed 2,500 pounds to be allowed their liberty, and Stobo had to pay 125 pounds towards the relief fund. [11]
And he avers that one young woman devoured twenty pounds of cherries, beating her opponent by two pounds and a half. [4]
My brother, the Secretary, took along about four pounds of United States statutes and six pounds of Unabridged Dictionary; for we did not know--poor innocents--that such things could be bought in San Francisco on one day and received in Carson City the next. [5]
In sixteen hundred pounds crude cotton four hundred are lint, worth, say, ten cents a pound; and twelve hundred pounds of seed, worth $12 or $13 per ton. [5]
For the charge of the voyage of two or three thousand pounds we have not received the value of one hundred pounds, and for the quartered boat to be borne by the souldiers over the falls. [4]
Friction makes the air hotter and hotter--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego would scarce enter into this furnace,--and General Doby has a large damp spot on his back as he pounds and pounds and pounds until we are off again on the third ballot. [9]
To the first accuser the jury awarded one hundred pounds, and to the other two hundred pounds damages, for slander. [4]
I only want a little help once more, a few pounds, but two score pounds, dear Quilp. [12]

More example sentences with the word pounds in them

For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
As it is, you have fallen into an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds a year; but I think I may congratulate you even upon that. [12]
And now the work was complete, and on board the Bridgwater Merchant was treasure to the sum of three hundred thousand pounds, and more. [11]
The wandering prospectors who made it scraped up two pounds and a half of gold the first day-worth $600. [5]
My Lord March, who did me the honour to lay one hundred pounds upon my skill, insisted that I should make one of a party to the famous amphitheatre near Lambeth. [9]
Still another group went and brought away ten thousand pounds, and lost it in fighting with Spanish buccaneers. [11]
You might as well tell me that if one horse weighs more than another horse he is worth more,--a cart-horse that weighs twelve or fourteen hundred pounds better than Eclipse, that may have weighed a thousand. [6]
Two of them weighed about 180 pounds each, and together were worth $90,000. [5]
Yet, May 30, 'we have now left: one can of oysters; three pounds of raisins; one can of soup; one-third of a ham; three pints of biscuit-crumbs. [5]
It was determined: Two pounds with the bones to every four persons. [10]
The sum of twenty pounds is to be disbursed about the funeral. [4]
I've done the trick twice-ten pounds o' loot once, an' ten golden shillin's another. [11]
Forty pounds apiece--equal to three years' wages of an ordinary recruit of the army. [11]
Tom appealed first to Philip for the twenty pounds he owed him. [9]
It would appeal to him on some grand scale, with real danger and, say, a few scores of thousands of pounds at stake--not unless. [11]
He always expected to catch the legendary trout which weighed two pounds and was believed to inhabit that pool. [4]
He also secured three thousand pounds of the Khedive's borrowings from Europe, on Kingsley's promise that it should be returned five-fold. [11]
On his death-bed three thousand pounds did my father give to you for this betrothal. [11]
It burns about three hundred pounds of carbon a year, (besides other fuel,) when in fair working order, according to a great chemist's estimate. [6]
Still, the ten thousand pounds went to David and Hope where they smilingly laboured through the time of high Nile and low Nile, and khamsin and sirocco, and cholera, and, worse than all, the banishments to the hot Siberia of Fazougli. [11]
Just so with the rhyming fellow,--he pounds away on his verses and they warm up a little. [6]
The venture before the last had been sugar, and when he arrived in Cairo, having seen his fields and factories absorbed in the Khedive's domains, he had but one ten pounds to his name. [11]
He kept at the governor of Virginny till he gave him twelve hundred pounds in Continentals and power to raise troops. [9]
I will take the fifty pounds, and I'll put it on a horse for Shiel. [11]
It's well that the charitable Prussian ladies send us two pounds of coffee and some lint each month or we should be lost! [2]
Throw himself into the arbitration question between Canada and the United States: spend ten thousand pounds of--his grandfather's--money on the Party? [11]
And tell him that you won a thousand pounds in one night--" "It was only seven hundred," I interrupted sheepishly. [9]
Gaston frankly said that he wanted to live as his father would have done, and that he had no property, and no money beyond a hundred pounds, which would last him a couple of years on the prairies, but would be fleeting here. [11]
I told him that he should have ten pounds, and an increase of wages. [9]
All at once that bare, glacial fact of having sent her fifty pounds acted as an ironical illumination of his real position. [11]
The eight or ten thousand pounds necessary was not, however, easy to get for the start, and he hadn't the least notion of discounting the future, by asking the admiral's help. [11]
Mahmoud lived to take back to Ebn Mazar the other hundred pounds of the gold Macnamara had looted from the Khalifa; and he also took something for himself from the British officers at Wady Halfa. [11]
Resolved, That the sum of three hundred pounds be paid to Captain Robert Moray, in consideration of his services to the country, and his singular sufferings in his confinement, as a hostage, in Quebec. [11]
Kingsley's manner then suddenly changed, and he assured Dicky that he would receive five thousand pounds for the thousand within a year. [11]
His flesh was stripped from the bones and burned (except nine pounds of it which were sent on board the ships). [5]
And his first startling question was this: "Why should Mr. Lloyd George, instead of getting five thousand pounds a year for his services as prime minister, receive any more than a common labourer? [9]
But I who speak to you have been hungry, I know that fifty cents will buy ten loaves of bread, or three pounds of the neck of pork, or six quarts of milk for the babies. [9]
It is a source of honest pride to his descendant that his bill, which was honestly paid, as it seems to have been honorably earned, amounted to the handsome total of seven pounds and two shillings. [3]
I owe thee something like two hundred thousand pounds, I think--Egypt and I. [11]
Altogether, sixty-five pounds sixpence for a little thing like that. [5]
Perhaps, indeed, the singular and painful shyness--chill almost--with which Guida had received the fifty pounds now communicated itself to him by the intangible telegraphy of the mind and spirit. [11]
That my grandfather should buy me a certain borough, which might be had for six thousand pounds. [9]
And the landlord shook his fist at us and shouted back, who was to pay him his four pounds odd, which included two ten-shilling dinners and a flask of his best wine? [9]
Then there are shirts of cambric, holland, and lawn, wrought with fine needle-work of silk and curiously stitched, costing sometimes as much as five pounds. [4]
When she recovered, she would have the five heller pounds which the generous sovereign had left for her as a partial compensation for the injuries sustained while employing her rare skill for the delight of the multitude and, above all, himself. [10]
For that you shall have a hundred pounds next birthday, and as fine a suit of scarlet as you please, and a sword from London too. [11]
She did not see him enter, and he had time to note what matrimony, and the three years and the three million pounds, had done to her. [11]
That is to say, every one hundred pounds of the ore had from two hundred dollars up to about three hundred and fifty in it. [5]
He gets a royalty of ten per cent on it in England (issued in serial numbers) and the same royalty on it in book form afterwards, and is to receive an advance payment of five hundred pounds the day the first No. [5]
The usual net receipts of a performance were from nine to ten pounds, and this was about the sum that Elizabeth paid to companies for a performance at Whitehall, which was always in the evening and did not interfere with regular hours. [4]
Four heller pounds, Ratz, and the donkey and cart are yours. [10]
This so angered Queen Mary that she imprisoned him in the Tower, and fined the jurors from one to two thousand pounds each. [5]
On one occasion, presently, Shelley was so pressed for money to support his mistress with that he went to his wife and got some money of his that was in her hands--twenty pounds. [5]
Then an inconvenience presented itself which we had not properly appreciated before, namely, that one cannot make a heavy traveling trunk stand for twenty-five pounds of baggage --because it weighs a good deal more. [5]
Never mind five pounds--what's five pounds? [12]
For three thousand pounds which my father gave to your father, you--" With a swift gesture she stopped him. [11]
I call forty pounds light for a muskallonge; fifty to seventy is about my figure. [4]
For three thousand pounds it was so arranged. [11]
Wooden stuff was plenty, but a good farmer would not have above four pieces of pewter in his house; with all his frugality, he was unable to pay his rent of four pounds without selling a cow or horse. [4]
And yet he pitied her so much, and felt so unwilling to have a matter of such gravity disturbing the oddity of their acquaintance, that he thought, and thought truly, that rather than receive fifty pounds down, he would have the Marchioness proved innocent. [12]
So, when they'd paid us the cash--forty pounds apiece--I stepped in behind you, and here we are--here we are! [11]
The ordinary price paid for a new play was less than seven pounds; Oldys, on what authority is not known, says that Shakespeare received only five pounds for "Hamlet. [4]
There was the original fifty pounds. [11]
At birth I only weighed 4 1/2 pounds with my clothes on--and the clothes were the chief feature of the weight, too, I am obliged to confess. [5]
He was standing on the pavement, when an awkward express employee, carrying a brick weighing a hundred pounds, stumbled and let it fall on the bummer's foot. [5]
Harrison was poor on forty pounds a year. [4]
Hose and breeches of silk, velvet, or other rich stuff, and fringed garters wrought of gold or silver, worth five pounds apiece, are some of the items noted. [4]
In the matter of luxuries we were modest--we took none along but some pipes and five pounds of smoking tobacco. [5]
Though the supply of furs was scanty in Virginia, one master confessed he had got in one voyage by this private trade what he sold in England for thirty pounds. [4]
When Queen Anne of England was on the throne she sent Chief John's grandfather a gold cup and a hundred pounds. [11]
On the 19th November, 1759, he was presented with 1,000 pounds as "a reward for his zeal to his country and the recompense for the great hardships he has suffered during his confinement in the enemy's country. [11]
He has put notices in the newspapers of Charlestown, Philadelphia, New York, and even Boston, and offered a thousand pounds reward. [9]
Yet he could not have moved a foot from where he was if he had been given a million pounds. [11]
The American has never thought of his own, or his friends', or anybody's weight in _stones_ of fourteen pounds. [6]
But here's something more the biggest game ever played between nations by a private person--with fifty thousand pounds as the end thereof, if all goes well with my lone corvette. [11]
If he throws me, I give you twenty pounds for him. [9]
The souldiers say many of your officers maintaine their families out of that you sent us, and that Newport hath an hundred pounds a year for carrying newes. [4]
I was the loser by some three hundred pounds, in addition to what I expended and loaned to Mr. Fox. [9]
He came up like a log, and must have weighed seventy pounds. [9]
There was only left to bid him farewell, and to enclose a cheque for two thousand pounds. [11]
We put our lawful twenty-five pounds apiece all in one valise, and shipped the trunks back to St. Louis again. [5]
He was too jaded with the din of pounds, shillings, and pence to permit his pen to invent facts or to adorn realities. [4]
The first year it carried a good many passengers, but its freight list only comprised eight hundred pounds of figs! [5]
Dyck had left Ireland with ninety pounds in his pocket and many tons' weight of misery in his heart. [11]
When a man, instead of burning up three hundred pounds of carbon a year, has got down to two hundred and fifty, it is plain enough he must economize force somewhere. [6]
Five-and-thirty pounds a-year in this beautiful place! [12]
As you know, I was called away to my sick sister that evening, and the money I won with Shiel's fifty pounds was not paid to me till after Shiel had gone. [11]
Many a time I took off ten pounds that way. [9]
I felt that I had victory on my side, and was nothing loth to join them at whist, Philip and I against the rector and my aunt, and won something like two pounds apiece from them. [9]
There's only a hundred pounds, but I give it to you with all my heart, and you can pay it back when the king's money comes to you, or when you marry a rich woman. [11]
We put eighteen hundred pounds of provisions and mining tools in the wagon and drove out of Carson on a chilly December afternoon. [5]
We had twenty-seven hundred pounds of it aboard, the driver said--"a little for Brigham, and Carson, and 'Frisco, but the heft of it for the Injuns, which is powerful troublesome 'thout they get plenty of truck to read. [5]
And that was how I lost my last two thousand five hundred pounds, as I said at the Logan Trial. [11]
For instance, a hotel chambermaid has nothing to do but make beds and fires in fifty or sixty rooms, bring towels and candles, and fetch several tons of water up several flights of stairs, a hundred pounds at a time, in prodigious metal pitchers. [5]
He was sending her fifty pounds, his first contribution to their home; and, the war over, a pretty new home she certainly should have. [11]
Read them to her as you read them to me, and she'll only hear your voice, and she'll think them clever and you a wonderful man, even if you are fifty and weigh a thousand pounds. [11]
I don't believe he weighs more than a hundred and thirty or forty pounds. [6]
The Governor says he weighs a hunderd and seventy-five pounds. [6]
When he died he left his heir 2,000,000 pounds, which was a most unusual fortune for a king to possess in those days. [5]
That very morning he had had an interview with the King, and had been reminded with more exactness than kindness that he had cost King Charles a ship, scores of men, and thousands of pounds, in a fruitless search for buried treasure in Hispaniola. [11]

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