The fossils in the slate are often distorted into quaint shapes, pulled out long if they lie along the plane of cleavage, or squeezed together, or doubled down on both sides, if they lie across the plane.

Here he doubled down his pinky and waved the remaining two fingers in the face of his friend.

The newspaper was doubled down tightly, and a great red cross of Tom's making showed me the part he wished me to read.

The books lay on the table, with many leaves doubled down, and, in particular, those which contained his share in the parliamentary debates.

Mr. Coleridge's forte is conversation, and he is conscious of this: Mr. Southey evidently considers writing as his strong-hold, and if gravelled in an argument, or at a loss for an explanation, refers to something he has written on the subject, or brings out his port-folio, doubled down in dog-ears, in confirmation of some fact.

He left me, like Churchill's Scotch lassie, "pleased, but hungry"; and I found, as Valentine did in Congreve's "Love for Love," "a page doubled down in Epictetus which was a feast for an emperor.

We stepped into an alley to let the race go by, but he doubled down the alley opposite.

He doubled down the Roo Roubray, dodged round a corner an' made for the Grand Pont.

Tales in Verse by Mr. Durfey: Bound in Red Leather, gilt on the Back, and doubled down in several Places.

They double down the alleyway and shout, 'Matcham' or 'Ponting' or 'Guttman,' and in fifteen seconds one of those swift three has the taps going and the towels out.

When the boy had come near enough he passed back his rifle, and his lips formed the almost noiseless word, "Shoot!" Tremblingly Rod seized the gun and looked into the swamp ahead, Mukoki doubling down in front of him.

They spent most of the day in sleep in a corner of the hen-coop where they were kept, each on its haunches with the tail coiled up in front, the body arched, and the head covered by the fore paws and doubled down between the thighs; at night, however, they were more active and restless, their large reddish-yellow eyes being then obscured by the dilated pupil, which during the day appears as a narrow vertical line.