So long as the products of slave labor were unprofitable, through the exhaustion of the tobacco-fields, there was a sort of sentimental philanthropy among disinterested Southern men tending to a partial emancipation; but when the cotton gin (invented in 1793) had trebled the value of slaves, and the breeding of them became a profitable industry, the philanthropy of the planters vanished.

And those clearings, transformed into pasture-land, watered by the neighboring springs, enabled Mathieu to treble his live-stock and attempt cattle-raising on a large scale.

The immigration of 1783 had at one stroke trebled the population of Nova Scotia; and the resources of the province were inadequate to meet the demand on them.

Now I had thought the crab we had tried to capture before coming to the island, a prodigy unsurpassed; but this creature was more than treble its size, seeming as though a prodigious table were a-chase of them, and moreover, spite of its monstrous bulk, it made better way over the weed than I should have conceived to be possiblerunning almost sideways, and with one enormous claw raised near a dozen feet into the air.

We meet in the evenings of three days in a week to draw, and it has been conducted thus far with such success as to have trebled the number of our association and excited the attention and applause of the community.

I should not like you half so muchshould not think nearly so well of you, if you had been willing to give up all your own people, to throw them lightly over, all of a sudden, for a comparative stranger, treble your age, too"(with a sigh)"like me.

" "I regret," said Abdullah, with some heat, "that I did not treble my usual price.

And then she described the storm, the action of the sailors, the boatswain's whistle, and the loud call of the master, "Which," said she, "trebled the confusion of the ship."

By degrees, however, he abated a little of the inscription and made up for it by trebling the costliness of the stone.

The direction of the wind was so favourable, that it kept hope alive; though we trebled our distance by going round the British islands, instead of passing directly up channel.

Treat this human muck-heap even as you would ordinary sewage or manure, and who does not know that the very same putrefying mass of corruption which if allowed to remain near our doors would breed nothing but fever, cholera, and the worst forms of disease and death, when removed to a little distance, will double and treble the ordinary fertility of the soil and produce crops that will increase the wealth of the entire nation?

He trebled the grant for national education, and exhibited increasing liberality of mind as he gained experience.

It may truly have been a church, for there stands an edifice at Rome, which towers to treble the height of a cruiser's masts.

And how he described the forced marches, and the manoeuvring, and the great battle!how the cannonade seemed the breaking up of heaven and earth, and the solid ground shook under the charges of cavalry; how, yet louder than all, rang the imperial battle-cry, maddening those who uttered it; how death was everywhere, and yet he escaped unharmed, or with some slight wound which trebled his importance to his admiring auditors.

The slow but sure gains of snug percentage become despicable in his eyes: no "operation" is thought worthy of attention, that does not double or treble the investment.

Half the skill displayed by them in intrenching, half the pluck they showed behind stockades, had they been devoted to harassing our soldiers on the march or to loose skirmishing by means of jungle ambuscades, might, if backed by reasonably straight shooting, have trebled our losses and difficulties.

The Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries has been in existence for eight years, and during the last year has more than trebled its members, the clerks' attitude towards combination having recently changed somewhat, in London at any rate.

My actions are my minister's." KISSES Here's to a kiss: Give me a kiss, and to that kiss add a score, Then to that twenty add a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred, and so kiss on, To make that thousand quite a million, Treble that million, and when that is done Let's kiss afresh as though we'd just begun.

"Haven't you got this mill, and don't you own fields, to give labor to the arms that would come and whose labor would double and treble your produce?" These simple words were like a whipstroke that made Lepailleur rear.

But India is able to treble her production.

The expense of our cars costs us treble all the rest of our expenses.

If she does not always divide your trouble, upon the pleasanter occasions of life she is sure always to treble your satisfaction.

If it be worth your attention in this way I am disposed to think that it will enable me to treble the sum I first offered as a slight remuneration.

Having participated in the War to a very small extent and with almost insignificant losses, she has, after the War, almost trebled her territory and almost doubled her population.

Were I to receive treble the weight of gold, how should that enable me to face my son in the halls of Odin, with his blood unavenged?" There was a murmur, and the King exclaimed "Now, now, Odo, we know no more of Odin.