Doubled

Examples

• The Germans were doubled up with laughter, hearing his strange droll words, his droll phrases of dialect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus, while the force was reduced nearly one-half, the quantity of product was more than doubled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Robert Jordan looked away from the man lying with his head doubled under on the road to the bridge, and the sentry box at the other end. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Just then the firing doubled in intensity and in it was the heavy bumping of the hand grenades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I wished it had been doubled. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This more than doubled the distance from Grand Gulf to the high land back of Bruinsburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That very night, while yet full of gratitude and good resolves, this whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• By connecting them in series this potential is doubled, thus providing a main circuit (P and N) of 220 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When the other stimulants lost their influence, I doubled the dose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Uriah stopped short, put his hands between his great knobs of knees, and doubled himself up with laughter. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If the water were 20 feet deep, the force of the outflowing water would be twice as strong, because the pressure would be doubled. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Here then is an industry that doubled in five years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His left arm was doubled under his head and his right arm was stretched straight out. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had always doubled, and sometimes quadrupled, his fees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He might have doubled his presumption to mebut poor Harriet! Jane Austen. Emma.
• This doubled the capacity of the single wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If 2 cubic feet of air are compressed to 1 cubic foot, the pressure of the compressed air is doubled. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This time there was not the burning when he swallowed but the warm comfort doubled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Love had doubled all her excellencies, and placed a diadem on her genius. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If the current is allowed to flow twice as long, the amount of silver lost and gained by the electrodes is doubled; and if twice the current is used, the result is again doubled. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In 1897 the wire nails produced in the United States amounted to 8,997,245 kegs of 100 pounds each, which nearly doubled the output of 1896. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1878 improvements were made which doubled its working speed and permitted as high as 20,000 revolutions a minute. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The following year there was such a telephone boom that the Bell Company’s system was doubled, and the gross earnings reached more than a million dollars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The period of expectation was now doubled. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Ma likes it doubled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Since the expiration of the Bell patents many smaller companies have sprung up, and the number of telephones in use has more than doubled in the last five years. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thirteen paternosters are assigned by our pious founder for matins, and nine for vespers; be those services doubled by thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He doubled the production inside three months, without materially increasing the pay-roll, by increasing the cutting speeds of tools, and by the use of various devices. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then he too stood, with his doubled hand upon the table near it, waiting to be addressed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

Edited by Angelina