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As a result, these revenues were already quadrupled, and yet the burden was so much more equably distributed than before, that all the king- dom felt a sense of relief, and the praises of my ad- ministration were hearty and general.

They could have trebled the Columbiad's charge; they could have quadrupled or quintupled it!" exclaimed Michel, with whom the verb took a higher intonation each time.

These Barnacles perched upon staircases and hid in passages, waiting their orders to make houses or not to make houses; and they did all their hearing, and ohing, and cheering, and barking, under directions from the heads of the family; and they put dummy motions on the paper in the way of other men's motions; and they stalled disagreeable subjects off until late in the night and late in the session, and then with virtuous patriotism cried out that it was too late; and they went down into the country, whenever they were sent, and swore that Lord Decimus had revived trade from a swoon, and commerce from a fit, and had doubled the harvest of corn, quadrupled the harvest of hay, and prevented no end of gold from flying out of the Bank.

During the war with Spain he was employed in the commissariat of the French army, and made a fortune; then with that money he speculated in the funds, and trebled or quadrupled his capital; and, having first married his banker's daughter, who left him a widower, he has married a second time, a widow, a Madame de Nargonne, daughter of M.

He had always doubled, and sometimes quadrupled, his fees.

For six years the rebuilding of San Francisco had been going on, and his business had quadrupled and octupled, and yet he was no better off.

Once on his sleeping porch and safely locked in, he doubled and tripled and even quadrupled his exercises until, exhausted, he lay down on the couch to woo sleep and to ponder two problems that especially troubled him.

(Alliance News) - Diversified Gas & Oil PLC hiked its second quarter dividend Thursday after interim profit and revenue quadrupled as oil & gas production surged and prices strengthened.

The transport sector's trade volume more than quadrupled to 0.97mn equities and value almost quadrupled to QR22.01mn on a 13% increase in deals to 274.

10, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid use disorder rates at delivery more than quadrupled nationally from 1999 to 2014, according to research published in the Aug.

GOVERNMENT funding for the Welsh language should be quadrupled and every child should be fluent in Welsh, according to a manifesto from a Welsh-language group.

Among the findings: from 1999-2000 to 2009-10, the number of students enrolled in public charter schools quadrupled from 0.3 million to 1.6 million students; from 2000 to 2010, undergraduate enrollment in private, for-profit institutions quadrupled from 0.4 million to 1.7 million students; and, in 2010, roughly 82% of high school completers from high-income families (the top 20% of all incomes) enrolled in a two-or four-year college immediately after high school, compared to 67% of students from middle-income families and 52% of students from low-income families.