"Threefold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... temporary chairman was rejected in favor of Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, a strong silver man. The second day of the convention saw the advantage pushed further: each Territory had its representation increased threefold; of contesting delegations those who represented the gold element in their respective States were unseated to make way for silverites; and Stephen M. White, one of the California ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... Littlepage," said the Rev. Mr. Worden, on that occasion, "by thus lessening its rites in vulgar eyes. The first thing is to teach men to respect holy things, my dear sir; and a clergyman in his gown and surplice, commands threefold the respect of one without them. I consider it, therefore, a sacred duty to uphold the dignity of my office on ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper
... valves to the capsule, and three seeds or three rows of seeds in each fruit. Many palms still keep pretty well to this primitive arrangement, but a few of them which have specially protected or highly developed fruits or nuts have lost in their later stages the threefold disposition in the fruit, and possess only one seed, often a very large one. There is no better and more typical nut in the whole world than a coco-nut—that is to say, from our present point of view at least, though the fear of that awful person, the ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... she usually shows favour to persons of this character, who have a threefold pretence ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope
... aria for contralto, full of the deepest feeling, "Alas! now is my Jesus gone," and one of the most beautiful numbers in the oratorio, wherein Zion, or the Church, mourns her great loss. The trial scene before Caiaphas and the threefold denial of Peter follow, leading up to the beautiful aria for alto, with violin obligato, "Oh, pardon me, my God!" Macfarren, in his admirable analysis, ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton
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