twenty-thousand-pound

Updated: June 29, 2025

The first thing you see is a twenty-thousand-pound bridge across the Corrib, not very far from the salmon weir, where are more fish than you can count splashing up the salmon stairs, which are arranged to save the salmon the effort of a long jump.

Robert John Buckley - Ireland as It Is: And as It Would be Under Home Rule

Pendennis does not say No. He has won the twenty-thousand-pound prize; and we know there are worse blanks in that lottery. No answer came to Mrs. Pendennis's letter to Colonel Newcome at Brussels, for the Colonel was absent from that city, and at the time when Laura wrote was actually in London, whither affairs of his own had called him.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes : Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family