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The stories they could unfold of barn-storming in country towns in years gone by would fill a volume as bulky as a census report. Moreover, they could turn their talents to any line of business and double, treble, quintuple parts as easily as talk. They were players of the old stock school.
On Saturn's Ring, and the Rotation of the Planet's Fifth Satellite round an Axis. Mixed Observations. Phil. Trans., vol. lxxxiii. Observations on the Planet Venus. Phil. Trans., vol. lxxxiv. Observations on a Quintuple Band in Saturn. On some Peculiarities observed during the last Solar Eclipse. On Saturn's Rotation round an Axis. Phil. Trans., vol. lxxxv.
Taking the message as his letter of instructions, our then minister at Paris felt himself required to assume the same ground in a remonstrance which he felt it to be his duty to present to Mr. Guizôt, and through him to the King of the French, against what has been called the "quintuple treaty;" and his conduct in this respect met with the approval of this Government.
Taking the message as his letter of instructions, our then minister at Paris felt himself required to assume the same ground in a remonstrance which he felt it to be his duty to present to Mr. Guizot, and through him to the King of the French, against what has been called the "quintuple treaty;" and his conduct in this respect met with the approval of this Government.
Herman Schaepman, a priest, a professer at the Seminary of Rysenburg, a statesman, an orator, and a poet, whose quintuple attainments are equally admired, although his scientific importance is not generally considered to be quite as weighty as the rest of his remarkable personality.
In place of the Triple Alliance and the Entente has arisen the Quintuple Alliance which is to rule the world. The victors in this war intend to impose their combined will upon the vanquished and to subordinate all interests to their own.
"The American Minister to France, whose intervention defeated the quintuple treaty." General Cass replied in a very energetic speech, in which he stated that he was approaching the age of three score years and ten. Turning to Kossuth, he said: Leader of your country's revolution asserter of the rights of man martyr of the principles of national independence welcome to our shores!
In like manner, I fear, that in all future times, as in all times past, when poor Jack falls overboard in Madras roads, or in Port Royal harbour, he will be crunched between the shark's quadruple or quintuple rows of serrated teeth, with as merciless a spirit of enjoyment as Jack himself can display.
And what were his first words? "Ah! triple brutes! quadruple idiots! quintuple boobies that we are!" "What is the matter?" every one round him exclaimed. "What the matter is?" "Speak, can't you?" "It is, imbeciles," shouted the terrible secretary, "it is the bullet only weighs 19,250 lbs!" "Well?" "And it displaces 28 tons, or 56,000 lbs., consequently it floats!"
He classifies his words in groups single rhymes, double rhymes, triple, quadruple, and even quintuple rhymes; and then he divides and subdivides and parcels off his words under separate headings. He does not give definitions.
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