Read full poem →I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Dictionary Entry
A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. poundsper poundssterling poundspounds thousandpounds hundredpounds fivepounds millionpounds ten
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Poetry examples for “pounds”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →] heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Read full poem →His wealth brave Timon gloriously confounds;
Asked for a groat, he gives a hundred pounds;
Or if three ladies like a luckless play,
Read full poem →Betray, and are betray'd:
Poor Y----r's sold for fifty pounds,
And B----ll is a jade.
Read full poem →The blood-red sky is outside his window now. Is it blood or fire?
Merciful God! Fire! And his heart wrenches and pounds "Annette!"
Read full poem →“ like unfit ana uncomely matter, under the penalty of
“ five pounds, and fourteen days imprisonment. That
“ no play should be acted till first perused and allowed
Read full poem →author’s application, in 1630, it was augmented to
the annual sum of one hundred pounds and a tierce of
Spanish wine.
Read full poem →When the icy sleet pounds on the storm windows and
the house lifts to a great breath, sing for the out-
Read full poem →Her love. A dear, good Girl! she’d have
Only three thousand pounds as yet;
More bye and bye. Yes, his good will
Read full poem →I, my own steward, took my rent,
Three hundred pounds for half the year;
Our witnesses the Cook and Groom,