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Sentences starting with pound

Pound had set the seal of his approval, with a glazed picture cover, representing Daniel in the lions' den and an angel standing beside him. [9]
Pound would have put the emphasis of the Everlasting into those words! [9]

Sentences ending with pound

She pondered over this thought on her way to the tavern, where she found a corner to sleep, and a carrier who, on the day after the morrow, would take her to the sea for a heller pound. [10]
After we had got him in and dressed him, he weighed three-quarters of a pound. [4]
It was long before I got to sleep that night after my talk with Alec Pound. [9]
New England, he affirms, hath been nearly as chargeable to him and his friends: he never got a shilling but it cost him a pound. [4]
Being in for a penny, I am ready, as the saying is, to be in for a pound. [12]

Short sentences using pound

Six pound a year! [12]

Sentences containing pound two or more times

So costly are these that "now it is a small matter to bestow twenty nobles, ten pound, twenty pound, fortie pound, yea a hundred pound of one pair of Breeches. [4]

More example sentences with the word pound in them

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]
Every pound lost, would have been a hundredweight of happiness gained. [12]
After cutting, they will weigh considerably less than a pound, but will be worth four or five times as much as they were before. [5]
There's wimmin there wid cheeks like roses and buthermilk, and a touch that'd make y'r heart pound on y'r ribs; but none that's grander than Heldon's wife. [11]
From your ship we had not provision in victuals worth twenty pound, and we are more than two hundred to live upon this, the one halfe sicke, the other little better. [4]
No, I want to stand up before it and curse it and foam at the mouth, or take a club and pound it to rags and pulp. [5]
I was wont to ride that summer at four of a morning to canter beside Mr. Starkie afield, and I came to know the yield of every patch to a hogshead and the pound price to a farthing. [9]
It were better to give five hundred pound a ton for those grosse Commodities in Denmarke, then send for them hither, till more necessary things be provided. [4]
I maintain the title by the annual payment of twelve pound sterling for a certificate. [12]
In former, free-trade times, sugar was sixpence a pound, now it is two shillings sixpence; raisins were one penny, and now sixpence. [4]
Isaac Worthington almost thought it would be a pound of flesh. [9]
I dropped in there while Marco, the son of Marco, was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold piece. [5]
He knows where there are lots of winter-greens and sweet flag-root, but instead of going for them, he is to stay in-doors and pare apples and stone raisins and pound something in a mortar. [4]
Every pound of the wonderful cement was worth well-nigh $200. [5]
The sight of the woman, as she stood with arms outstretched, had made his pulses pound in his veins, but the heat was suddenly chilled by the wave of tragedy which had passed over him. [11]
This is probably the only instance on record where common family flour brought three thousand dollars a pound in the public market. [5]
They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the market-house there; everybody buys some of him; his meat's as white as snow and makes a good fry. [5]
Every time I said anything they could possibly guess I intended to be funny they were to pound those clubs on the floor. [5]
Mr Richard, you'll remember, if this gentleman should be found to have hung himself to the bed-post, or any unpleasant accident of that kind should happen--you'll remember, Mr Richard, that this ten pound note was given to you in part payment of two years' rent? [12]
I lost forty-seven pound ten by being honest this morning. [12]
What about six pound a year? [12]
But in weighing out a lecture he was as punctilious as Portia about the pound of flesh. [6]
Then he sent one more telegram, gave the clerk a pound, asked that the reply be sent to him as soon as it came, and went away, calmly smoking his cigar. [11]
But he goes on: "When I first went to those desperate designes it cost me many a forgotten pound to hire men to go, and procrastination caused more run away than went. [4]
We supply most of the boats in the West; there's hardly a pound of butter on one of them. [5]
That woman--she had more sense in her little finger than forty medical societies--Florence Nightingale--says that the music you pour out is good for sick folks, and the music you pound out isn't. [6]
They get the money for a full pound and a full gallon, and we get fourteen ounces of food and seven pints of liquor, or less. [11]
The price is less, being but 1 pound 14s. [14]
I do not know that they use pulpit-cushions now as much as they used to, when preachers had to have something soft to pound, so that they would not hurt their fists. [4]
And Sir John kept his word, liking me better from that day forth, and coming now and again to see me at the school,--though he was much abroad in France--giving many a pound to my Lightfoots, who were no worse soldiers for that. [11]
Pound, who preached it, but my father, who practised and embodied it. [9]
Pound, who made interminable statements to the Lord. [9]
Yes, even though, instead of every pound of farthings, she cost us ten times as much in gold! [10]
Pound, of whom I had a wholesome fear, or perhaps an unwholesome one. [9]
We pound upon his house, but he makes no sign. [4]
Do you think his father that I friended in this thing--did he ever give me a penny, or aught save that hut on the hill that was not worth a pound a year? [11]
At last, when flour reached a dollar a pound, and money could not be borrowed on the best security at less than eight per cent a month (I being without the security, too), I abandoned mining and went to milling. [5]
The pound of flesh was to be demanded, but strangely enough, he did not yet comprehend the nature of it. [9]
I asked: "What do you pay a pound for salt? [5]
With the scone cooked and inside ye, don't ye feel as well as though ye'd had a pound of beef or a rasher of bacon? [11]
Does breeding only consist in having clothes made in Savile Row and eating strawberries out of season at a pound a basket? [11]
He would have bills printed advertising for Louise as he had done for stray cattle; he would have notices put in the newspapers proclaiming that his wife was strayed or stolen and must be put in pound when discovered. [11]
If it had been eighty pound, the luxuriousness of feeling would have been increased. [12]
Denied its food at home, good food, my soul eagerly consumed and made part of itself the fermenting stuff that Alec Pound so willing distributed. [9]
Joan placed her artillery and began to pound a strong work which protected the gate St. Honor,. [5]
He was beaten, and he must pay--the pound of flesh. [9]
This position for a second promises repose; but almost immediately his head begins to pound the seat, and beat a lively rat-a-plan on the board. [4]
When you buy a pound of a drug and the man asks you which you want, troy or avoirdupois, it is best to say "Yes," and shift the subject. [5]
I prospected of a pound of "M," yesterday, and Raish reduced it with the blow-pipe, and got about ten or twelve cents in gold and silver, besides the other half of it which we spilt on the floor and didn't get. [5]

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