1 No purse, but loose money to the extent of seven pounds thirteen.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 2 There was eighty odd pounds in it, but nothing had been taken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 3 By seeming to be friendly with Pilkington he had forced Frederick to raise his price by twelve pounds.
4 For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
5 A visit to the bank, where several thousand pounds were found to be lying to the murderer's credit, completed his gratification.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 6 Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds.
7 So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
8 My mother left me twenty thousand pounds in trust, and I know Clifford can't touch it.
9 You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
10 My dad left me three hundred pounds when he died.
11 It was about thirty shillings a day, or ten pounds a week.
12 All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it.
13 The son had a good estate in Norfolk, the daughter twenty thousand pounds.
14 Had he been privy to her conversation with his son, he would not have wished her to belong to him, though her twenty thousand pounds had been forty.
15 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.