Sentence examples for on pound from inspiring English sources

(Yes, this is a book in which names like Troy Jollimore get dropped — and hurrah for that! — yet somehow journals like The Paris Review, Ploughshares and New England Review do not appear, and Poetry Magazine is mentioned only in passing, in one of the riffs on Pound).

The great 19th-century novelist would have breakfasted on pound cake and tea.

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Around the time Frost wrote those words, his family was living what he termed their "mildly literary life" in a London suburb, calling occasionally on Pound ("six inches taller for his hair," with a coat of "heavy black velvet") and Yeats, both of whom had endorsed Frost in ways that Frost found inadequate.

And in some ways, her diary illustrates a young woman much like those in more peaceful times: the night after her 18th birthday party, where the guests feasted on pound cake, ice cream and strawberries, she ended her entry on a melancholy note, wondering where she would be 18 years later, and if she would make a mark on the world.

He wrote about its construction in Cantos VII-XI, and that alone is enough for Mr. Kenner, to whom Pound is a hero and the subject of his major study, "The Pound Era," about the many aspects of modernism that impinge on Pound.

There is a tendency to put on pounds as one grows older.

The most widespread one is that eating junk food puts on pounds faster than "healthy" food.

"Today, Glendon just kept on pounding inside and pounding inside.

Women tend to put on pounds as they get older and after menopause.

If we eat more energy than we use, we store it for later, i.e., we put on pounds.