1 Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog.
2 A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench.
3 The noble and solemn air with which Rebecca made this appeal, gave it double weight with the fair Saxon.
4 The last word came out with a sort of double expression, betwixt jest and earnest.
5 In the little garden the double daffodils rose in tufts, near the wide-open door, and red double daisies made a border to the path.
6 And in real grief, tormented by her own double consciousness and reaction, she began to weep.
7 She began to think it rather hard upon the mare to have such double duty; if she were forgotten, the poor mare should be remembered.
8 They were both wrapped in old and shabby outer garments, which might, perhaps, serve the double purpose of protecting their persons from the rain, and sheltering them from observation.
9 'Such matters keep well, and, like good wine, often double their value in course of time,' answered the matron, still preserving the resolute indifference she had assumed.
10 Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 11 When they entered the large common room of the inn they found assembled there about ten men from among the neighbouring population, and the group was increased by the new contingent to double that number.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 12 They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 13 Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 14 There is that double possibility.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 15 There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE