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Definition of Trebles
1. treble [v] - See also: treble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trebles
Literary usage of Trebles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Home Maker by Jane Cunningham Croly (1889)
"4th row:—One treble into first treble, one chain, one treble into next treble,
two chain, one treble into each of two next trebles, four chain, ..."
2. Mathematical Questions and Solutions, from "The Educational Times", with edited by Constance I Marks (1907)
"An Empirical Rule for the rough calculation of the time in which a certain sum
trebles itself at a given rate per cent. (compound interest), or of the. rate ..."
3. Vision: A Magazine for Youth (1889)
"Shell (that in five trebles), in next double, to the right of the other shell
... Make 2 double trebles (that is thread over twice) in the center of the six ..."
4. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"He made a book concerning homonymous sainte, and there were 855, all having their
doubles, trebles, quadruples or more : so had saints swarmed in those days ..."
5. Plumpton Correspondence: A Series of Letters, Chiefly Domestick, Written in by Sir Edward Plumpton (1839)
"... all your causes, busines, and trebles. And thus our Lorde God have you in his
keeping. From Yorke, the xxix day of October, by your faithfull and loving ..."
6. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"Title for the trebles for upon Alv moth understanding 15 life for soul 6 restoreth
the prosperity /» 7 in skilful strains for т-.:л 8 (glory) that i», ..."
7. The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review by Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1826)
"The Bee, a Duet for two trebles, with an Accompaniment for the Piano Lor te or
Harp; the Poetry from Roger s's Pleasures of Memory ; the Music by Wm. H. ..."
8. The Vestry Minute Books of the Parish of St. Bartholomew Exchange in the by Edwin Freshfield (1890)
"... against the kindred of the said mr Yeoman & all others from all suits & trebles
that he may or might any wayes sustaine by reason of the payment of the ..."
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