"Fourfold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 7.30. Come, now, Mr. Martin. It's up to you. I can see 'Yes' in Doris's eye. Over the port—most delectable, I assure you—I'll give full details of the peculiar case of a man in Worcestershire whose crop of gooseberries increased fourfold after starting an apiary. And what does it matter if you do lose a queen or two in June? The drones will attend to that trifle.... It's a fixture, eh? Where's Peters? In the Pull and Push? I'll rout ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... and every dollar of this money is good as gold, all kinds equal to each other, passing from hand to hand and paid out as good money, not only in the United States but among all the commercial countries of the world. Our money has increased nearly fourfold, while our population has ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... probably the origin of the proverbial number. Ibn Batuta, in his excellent account of the Maldives, estimates them at only about 2000. But Captain Owen, commenting on Pyrard, says that he believes the actual number of islands to be treble or fourfold of 12,000. (P. de Laval in Charton, IV. 255; I.B. IV. 40; ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... possible we have a fourfold purpose in each exercise, viz.: To illustrate a principle of construction; to develop a knowledge of tools and skill in their use; to teach the use of working drawings and scales; to sustain the ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896 • Various
... isn't it? but the old rogue makes one pay double for the risk! You are making his fortune, you have raised his prices fourfold." ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
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