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Definition of Quadruples
1. quadruple [v] - See also: quadruple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadruples
Literary usage of Quadruples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 ..."
2. The Marine Steam Engine: Its Construction, Action and Management. A Manual by Carl Busley (1902)
"The firm of CRAMP & SONS of Philadelphia adopted two four- cramp's c-ank quadruples
in their new fast steamer "St. Louis1' of the American Line, ..."
3. Evenings with Prince Cambacérès, Second Consul, Arch-chancellor of the by Étienne Léon Lamothe-Langon (1838)
"... female sleep-walker—A physician—M. Mialhe—Human pride—The island of St.
Louis and the gambling house, an anecdote—The two quadruples, an anecdote. ..."
4. Evenings with Prince Cambacérès, Second Consul, Arch-chancellor of the by Étienne Léon Lamothe-Langon (1837)
"... female sleep-walker—A physician—M. Mialhe—Human pride—The island of St.
Louis and the gambling house, an anecdote—The two quadruples, an anecdote. ..."
5. America and the American Church by Henry Caswall (1839)
"The Church quadruples its numbers in twenty-four years.—Missionary Society
established.—Alexandria Seminary, Kenyon College, and Kentucky Seminary ..."
6. The Quadruplex by William Maver, Minor M. Davis (1884)
"By the adoption of any of the duplex systems, this method can be converted into
the quadruples system. Mr. Gerritt Smith was the inventor of this ingenious ..."
7. The Marine Steam Engine, Its Construction, Action and Management: A Manual by Karl Busley (1902)
"This latter point is of importance because when boilers have to be renewed, old
compounds can be so simply converted into quadruples. ..."
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