tenpound

And the tenpound householder, whom the act enfranchised, resembles the spinning jenny and the water frame in being something that everyone talks about, usually without knowing exactly what or who it was.

An Ambiguous Act Clive, John 1975

But then he slows and stops, hearing something else calling to him from lamps and shadows, some need, some wordless plea, hidden just under the tinny voices of tenpound tarts.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Your poor tenpound franchisers and electoral world generally, in love with eloquent talk, are they the likeliest to discern what man it is that has worlds of silent work in him?

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Few looked on his two-hundred-and-tenpound frame with indifference: Was that a fighter's build or a Falstaff 's belly?

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Few looked on his two-hundred-and-tenpound frame with indifference: Was that a fighter's build or a Falstaff 's belly?

NPR Topics: News 2011

Few looked on his two-hundred-and-tenpound frame with indifference: Was that a fighter's build or a Falstaff 's belly?

NPR Topics: News 2011

Few looked on his two-hundred-and-tenpound frame with indifference: Was that a fighter's build or a Falstaff 's belly?

NPR Topics: News 2011

Few looked on his two-hundred-and-tenpound frame with indifference: Was that a fighter's build or a Falstaff 's belly?

NPR Topics: News 2011

A tenpound note, which had been taken in the morning as worth more than nine pounds, was often worth less than eight pounds before night.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Few looked on his two-hundred-and-tenpound frame with indifference: Was that a fighter's build or a Falstaff 's belly?

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