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Twentyfold   Listen
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Twentyfold  adj.  Twenty times as many.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Twentyfold" Quotes from Famous Books



... not angry. Indeed, why should we ever have been? Surely it is laudable, this wish to make fair the ugly and overtop fairness, and no wonder that within the last five years the trade of the makers of cosmetics has increased immoderately—twentyfold, so one of these makers has said to me. We need but walk down any modish street and peer into the little broughams that flit past, or (in Thackeray's phrase) under the bonnet of any woman we meet, to see over how wide a kingdom ...
— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm

... at a time—as from August, 1838, to April, 1849, day by day, and for months together from meal to meal—it was necessary to look to God, almost without cessation, for daily supplies. When, later on, the Institution was twentyfold larger and the needs proportionately greater, for months at a time the Lord likewise constrained His servant to lean from hour to hour, in the same dependence, upon Him. All along through these periods of unceasing want, the Eternal God was his refuge and underneath were the Everlasting Arms. ...
— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson



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