"Two-fold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of its varieties is frequently grown from year to year in orchards and for the two-fold purpose of gathering food for the trees and providing for them a cover crop in winter. The medium red and crimson varieties are preferred for such a use. The latter is the more suitable of the two, since it does not draw on soil moisture needed ...
— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw
... strangely alluring and inspiring to the editorial imagination in the comprehensive purpose which has prompted their mission to the civilized nations of the West. That purpose is doubly peaceful, for it includes a two-fold commerce of material products and of immaterial ideas. Probably the vastest conception which ever entered into the mind of a conqueror was that which was profoundly meditated, and, in its initial steps, practically carried out, by ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... to separate the subject-matter of a novel from its treatment. Yet a word should be said of Balzac's widening the limits of admission. His widening was two-fold. It boldly took the naked reality of latest date, the men and women of his time in the full glare of passion and action, unsoftened by the veil that hides and in some measure transforms when they have passed into history; and it included in this reality the little, the commonplace, the trivial. ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... his wandering eyes the other twain. A loveling, of the sons of Turks,[FN90] a fawn * Whose waist conjoins the double Mounts Honayn.[FN91] Could Eve's corrupting daughers[FN92] tempt my heart * Content with two-fold lure 'twould bear the bane. Unto Diyar-I-Bakr ('maid-land '[FN93] this one lures; * That lures to two-mosqued cities of ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... is an exact balance preserved. Just as many molecules are decomposed at one electrode as at the other, and the exact chain of decomposition runs through the mass. Each compound electrolyzed develops a binary or two-fold composition, and gives up one constituent to one electrode and the other ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
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