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1. The cracked background hiss of ancient treble
2. The hundred next adjoining to the sea coast, out of, or through which the wool is carried or exported, forfeits £20, if the wool is under the value of £10; and if of greater value, then treble that value, together with treble costs, to be sued for within the year
3. if any person lay any wool, not entered as aforesaid, within fifteen miles of the sea, it must be seized and forfeited ; and if, after such seizure, any person shall claim the same, he must give security to the exchequer, that if he is cast upon trial he shall pay treble costs, besides all other penalties
4. Realising that I was studying him, Tommy began bobbing his head and humming loudly in a clear, sweet treble voice
5. ―You should have a gallery,‖ and I told he about the woman-owned gallery in the woman‘s house that I had shown at, and how she had had two police dogs and treble locks, and that I didn‘t want that
6. My first opponent looked about ten and wobbled ‘Bless this House’ in a breathy treble, then pompous Harry David boomed ‘The Cornish Floral Dance’ before I earned a smattering of applause with what I hoped was a spirited rendition of ‘Westering Home
7. However, Richard drank double and sometime treble measures of Jack Daniels when Stu or Spock ordered, along with shots of tequila and Sambuca’s, plus the fact he had not eaten anything, and by midnight Richard was wankered
8. Within the next six months we need to double if not treble the membership here and that can only be achieved by the men in this room
9. Double congratulations were poured upon him, double and treble handshakes of the hand he protruded for the purpose from beneath Ingeborg's relaxed body, and his spectacles as he responded were misty, to the immense gratification of the crowd, with happy tears
10. She heard herself saying, "Don't let go of me--please--don't let go of me--please--" but it seemed that he could not hold her, for she was caught away almost immediately again into that thin, hot, hurrying confusion, high up in the treble, high up at the very top, where all the violins were insisting together over and over again on one thin, quivering, anxious note
11. Where the bookcase stood in the room below, stood the bed: a double, or even a treble, bed, so very big was it, facing the window past which Vera--it was no use, she couldn't get away from Vera--having slept her appointed number of nights, fell and was finished
12. Somewhere round midnight Lucy discovered that the distances of the treble bed softened sound; either that, or she was too tired to hear anything, for she dropped out of consciousness with the heaviness of a released stone
13. Miss Entwhistle knew Lucy was small, but not how small till she saw her in the treble bed
14. But here they arrived in the bedroom and his sentence remained unfinished, because on seeing the small head on the pillow of the treble bed he thought, 'Why, he's married a child
15. that it is easier to read from the bass upward than from the treble
16. have the right range for the child's voice, E to G within the treble
17. Teach added lines above the treble staff by calling
18. was considerably treble in tone, and then sounded another with a more feminine flavour
19. Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,
20. The server piped the answers in the treble
21. High, a high note pealed in the treble clear
22. Once, very early in my career, it had totally failed me; since then I had been obliged on more than one occasion to double, and once, with infinite risk of death, to treble the amount; and these rare uncertainties had cast hitherto the sole shadow on my contentment
23. A great outburst of acclamations covered the vibrating treble of the life and soul of the party
24. There was a glad, quick treble of childish voices and she heard Bonnie’s tones rise over Ella’s
25. She did not feel well physically but, forced by Melanie, she went store palled on her for the first time and, although the business was treble what it had been the year before and the money rolling in, she could take no interest in it and was yard selling all his supply easily, but nothing Johnnie did or said pleased her
26. Was it present in the battle? Was it found? What if Thjoden, Lord of the Mark, should come by it and learn of its power? That is the danger that he sees, and he has fled back to Isengard to double and treble his assault on Rohan
27. Gary Payton (USA), playing for the Boston Celtics, scored his 20,000th career point against the Portland Trailblazers on 10 November 2004 – breaking the treble barrier
28. As I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the envelope
29. The spine is always striped; the legs are generally barred; and the shoulder-stripe, which is sometimes double and sometimes treble, is common; the side of the face, moreover, is sometimes striped
30. Reserve on such a point would be not only useless, but draw down treble misery on us all
31. " That is to say, after the sixteenth (or so) success of the red, one would think that the seventeenth coup would inevitably fall upon the black; wherefore, novices would be apt to back the latter in the seventeenth round, and even to double or treble their stakes upon it—only, in the end, to lose
32. The little girl also laughed, and her childish treble mixed with the hoarse and screeching laughter of the others
33. If it is not always necessary to imprison men, to flog them, or to put them to death when the landowner collects his rents, if the needy peasant pays a treble price to the merchant who deceives him, or the mechanic accepts wages absurdly small in comparison with the income of his master, or the poor man parts with his last rouble for duties and taxes, it is because he remembers that men have been flogged and put to death for trying to avoid compliance with what was demanded of them
34. Besides this the music expresses feelings in the most naïve manner: the terrible by sounds in the bass, the frivolous by rapid touches in the treble, etc
35. Off went Sandy, to return hastily with a face whiter than usual, and saying in his high treble: "'Appy, I can't fetch them
36. But as to this report, which appeared to receive the approbation of a majority of the members of the House, it seems to be clear from it, that were it not that you were so equally wronged by both belligerents, and that both persisted, you certainly would have engaged in war with one; but that, as a treble war was rather a difficult plan, it was best to continue the restrictive system
37. I have heard before of a people being their own worst enemies—but what shall we say to an assertion that persons selected from the people for their wisdom and discretion, should be their own worst enemies? Is it to the interest of the Administration that these abuses should continue, and that loans and taxes should be resorted to to cover them? Who, sir, are the true friends—I do not speak of motives—who in fact are the true friends of Administration? Those who move to abolish and retrench, or those who persevere in keeping up such establishments and resort to loans and taxes to defray the expense of them? Are you willing that any part of the loan authorized by the act which unhappily passed this House this morning should be borrowed for the purpose of keeping up as many marines as were deemed necessary in 1800, for treble the amount of naval force—and we then said it was a Government of profusion and patronage—yes, sir, we heaped a great deal of opprobrium and many hard epithets on it
38. He left the room singing in a quavering treble:
39. , descending an octave, where necessary, and doubling the number of beats belonging to any degree in the table, when the Vth to be tuned has its base in the octave above the treble C
40. Can it then be said, that with treble the population, and in an offensive war, necessity requires the dangerous innovation? Certainly not
41. It alone can save us, even now, from the threatened Democratic abandonment of Resumption and renewed debasement of the currency which would needlessly and most wickedly check the revival of business, and treble the country’s burdens
1. They were now three together again, and the high spirits with which Harry and Kaitlyn had begun the day were now trebled as well
2. “I’ve received several commissions to paint the folks and wee ones in the village, and the number of students I have has trebled in the past few weeks
3. escalating over many years, the council tax trebled in 9 years but
4. The bodily noises that accompany the life of any troll—those noises that are at once the bane to the trolls’ social lives and yet their primary delight—had doubled, then trebled, in intensity
5. Turning teenage rebellion, depression, and isolation into a game show had been promoted as a solution to teen suicide, since they were so enthralled by them, but it only trebled it
6. in fact any website telling you that your money will be doubled or trebled in a
7. My joy was trebled when I discovered that it was the
8. Acquired! Socrates; do you want to know how much I acquired? In the art of making money I have been midway between my father and grandfather: for my grandfather, whose name I bear, doubled and trebled the value of his patrimony, that which he inherited being much what I possess now; but my father Lysanias reduced the property below what it is at present: and I shall be satisfied if I leave to these my sons not less but a little more than I received
9. During the war with Spain he was employed in the commissariat of the French army, and made a fortune; then with that money he speculated in the funds, and trebled or quadrupled his capital; and, having first married his banker's daughter, who left him a widower, he has married a second time, a widow, a Madame de Nargonne, daughter of M
10. I bought two thirds of the shares of that company; as you had foreseen, the shares trebled in value, and I picked up a million, from which 250,000 francs were paid to you for pin-money
11. The population's trebled in the last three years
12. She was in a state of such violent excitement that her strength was trebled
13. I’ve found a number of great trades this way over the years, including Supergroup (which trebled in value in just a few months)
14. They are well worth talking about! Over the years I have made a fortune out of backing some amazing ones which doubled, trebled and more
15. In the next hour the crowd with passes trebled in number
16. Is it consistent? To my mind, Ivan Matveitch, as the true son of his fatherland, ought to rejoice and to be proud that through him the value of a foreign crocodile has been doubled and possibly even trebled
17. Prosecutor, have you not invented a new personality? Is the prisoner so coarse and heartless as to be able to think at that moment of love and of dodges to escape punishment, if his hands were really stained with his father's blood? No, no, no! As soon as it was made plain to him that she loved him and called him to her side, promising him new happiness, oh! then, I protest he must have felt the impulse to suicide doubled, trebled, and must have killed himself, if he had his father's murder on his conscience
18. Our debts have been paid off; our capitals increased, and our lands are trebled in value
19. In the course of the following year, their number will be more than doubled and trebled on the part of the enemy
1. The writer doubles and trebles his style when silence is imposed on a nation by its master
1. But by taking off all the different duties upon beer and ale, and by trebling the malt tax, or by raising it from six to eighteen shilling's upon the quarter of malt, a greater revenue, it is said, might be raised by this single tax, than what is at present drawn from all those heavier taxes
2. £2,595,835: 7 : 10 But, by trebling the malt tax,
3. This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which was a benefit to the manufacturer
4. People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents