"Ten-pounder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a little subsided, the industrious ten-pounder, who has struggled into the privileged order of the Commons, proud of having obtained the first step of aristocracy, will be the last man to assist in destroying the other gradations of the scale which he or his posterity may yet ascend; while the new member of a manufacturing district ...
— Sketches • Benjamin Disraeli |
