1 If you do it well, a pound, my dear.
2 I'll pound it, that Barney's managing properly.
3 'Three pound ten,' repeated Mr. Limbkins, firmly.
4 Say four pound, and you've got rid of him for good and all.
5 'I should say, three pound ten was plenty,' said Mr. Limbkins.
6 One pound, said Fagin, wishing to interest him in the scent as much as possible.
7 And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was afterwards increased to twenty pound.
8 If there's anything queer about him when we once get into the work; in for a penny, in for a pound.
9 Why here's one man that, in consideration of his wife and large family, has a quartern loaf and a good pound of cheese, full weight.
10 As he wouldn't go away, and shocked the company very much, our overseer sent him out a pound of potatoes and half a pint of oatmeal.
11 In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling.
12 You are to say,' said Mr. Brownlow, glancing steadily at Grimwig; 'you are to say that you have brought those books back; and that you have come to pay the four pound ten I owe him.
13 I sold myself,' said Mr. Bumble, pursuing the same train of relection, 'for six teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a milk-pot; with a small quantity of second-hand furniture, and twenty pound in money.
14 Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish.
15 Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired amount; and, in a species of arithmetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.
16 There are fourteen water-mills, six steam-engines, and a galvanic battery, always a-working upon it, and they can't make it fast enough, though the men work so hard that they die off, and the widows is pensioned directly, with twenty pound a-year for each of the children, and a premium of fifty for twins.
17 Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
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