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A pound of lead occupied a much smaller volume than a pound-weight stone of the hardest rock.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

A pound of lead occupied a much smaller volume than a pound-weight stone of the hardest rock.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

He had the legion artificers make a small number of pound-weight lead balls, warning them that if his idea bore fruit, they would have to make thousands upon thousands of pound-weight lead balls; the chief artificer cunningly countered by suggesting that thousands upon thousands of pound-weight lead balls would be better contracted out to a private supplier.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

He had the legion artificers make a small number of pound-weight lead balls, warning them that if his idea bore fruit, they would have to make thousands upon thousands of pound-weight lead balls; the chief artificer cunningly countered by suggesting that thousands upon thousands of pound-weight lead balls would be better contracted out to a private supplier.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

These were clinging, of course; the pound-weight of each of them would drop them down if they let loose.

Wandl the Invader Ray Cummings 1922

I may just say that the moon attracts a piece of matter, for example a pound-weight, here on the earth, with a force which we compare with the earth’s attraction thus.

The Tides Lord Kelvin 1909

No doubt the amount of heat evolved by the conversion of a pound-weight of carbon into carbonic acid is the same, whether it be a constituent of starch or of coal; but the application of the heat so produced is less under our control in the latter case.

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

There's two of 'em on each of their prahus, and they send a ball about two pound-weight sometimes, and other times a couple o 'handfuls of old bits o' broken iron, and nubbles o 'tin, and shtones.

The Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn 1870

To assist in stopping the whale's downward course, drogues were now bent on to the line as it ran out; but they appeared to have little more effect in impeding his progress than a log-ship has in stopping the way of a vessel; and yet they have, in reality, much more, as every pound-weight in addition tells on the back of a racer.

Old Jack William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

A peck of acorns a day, with a little bran, will make an hog (’tis said) increase a pound-weight _per diem_ for two months together.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663