pound sterling

The articles of Macaulay are going through the sixth edition, although the book costs a pound sterling.

According to the Italian press, for example, he has "the patriotism of the pound sterling."

In England people are continually paying and receiving money in pounds, but few could say exactly what a pound sterling means.

I would give a pound sterling any time for a good laugh; and that, I think, is why I have always been—round.

On arriving at the washing-place, he made a present to the chief of the value of about a pound sterling.