Citations:pounds


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I further thought thus: If a man runs a hundred pounds into the shopkeeper's debt, and after that shall pay for all that he shall fetch; yet, if this old debt stands still in the book uncrossed, for that the shopkeeper may sue him, and cast him into prison till he shall pay the debt.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?"