Meanwhile the Camanchees, who had observed the trio, and had ridden away at first for the purpose of deceiving them into the belief that they had passed unobserved, doubled on their track, and took a long sweep in order to keep out of sight until they could approach under the shelter of a belt of woodland towards which the travellers now approached.

This is no trifle of a cloak doubled about the person, or of balls rolled into piles by the sport of children; but an affair of life or death.

During his reign the annual expenditure almost invariably doubled the revenue.

" Betty seized the package; it consisted of a half-sheet of paper which inclosed a letter, doubled over and sealed with wax in the fashion of the day.

"Not I," answered Yorke carelessly; "the poor devil had luck on his wide, or doubled marvelously well on his pursuers, for I am told that not a trace of him nor of his confederate, the little fiddler, did our men find.

The canvas twill was doubled around the sides and bottom; the handles and the shoulder strap were made of dark bridle leather; it was the Fort Knox of AWOL bags.

I spent twelve hours doubled up in the porter's basket for soiled linen, not being able to straighten up on account of the shelves for clean linen just over my head.

" Mr. Kendall in his letter enclosing this naïve business proposition, remarks: "It is an impressive commentary on the principles which govern business in California that this company doubled their stock to bribe members of the State Legislature, and are now willing to add but ten per cent to be relieved from the position of patent pirates and placed henceforth on an honest footing.

Thus the estimate which they placed upon their services had nearly doubled between 1854 and 1855had risen from $25,180 to $50,000.

First he skirted the row of poplars on the drive; then doubled back across the meadow to his right and ran in a sharp-angling course across an orchard of apple trees.

As Wharton's chauffeur he now doubled the parts.

Now if we take out the boxes and file them so we have, another eighth of an inch, by the time we have taken up this wear, we will then have this distance doubled, and we will soon have the piston head striking the end of the cylinder, and besides, the engine will not run as smooth as it did.

So saying, he dropped his head on both his doubled fists, and she lost sight of his face.

The swish of the paddles was doubled and tripled by his imagination, and the canoes seemed to be almost on him.

" Soon afterward, when Marian was in bed, and Miss McQuinch, according to a nightly custom of theirs, was seated on the coverlet with her knees doubled up to her chin inside her bedgown, they discussed the adventure very earnestly.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has launched a war loan of 230 millions and doubled our income tax.

The Carnival had been celebrated with greater joyousness than in any year before; the proverbial gayety of the town was doubled during the concluding festival of Shrove Tuesday; and Lent had scarcely thrown as deep a shade as usual over the devoutest inhabitants of the city.

With us, the consonants J and X represent, not simple, but complex sounds: hence they are never doubled.

On the 21st or 22d we doubled Cape Finisterre; beyond this point which bounds the Gulph of Gascony, the Loire and the Argus parted company; these vessels sailing very ill, it was impossible for them to keep up with the frigate, which to enable them to do so, would have been obliged to take in her top-gallant sails and studding sails.

Having doubled a point which extends into the sea, we entered the bay, at the bottom of which is the town of St. Croix.

From St. Croix, we had constantly steered to the S.S.W. During the ceremony at the tropic we doubled Cape Barbas, situated in lat.

A GREEK LOVE-STORY If we imagine the situation reverseda man delivering his "beloved" into the clutches of a tiger rather than to the legitimate caresses of a rivalour horror at his loveless selfishness would be doubled.

A vote of the assembly doubled the gratuitous gift which the province ordinarily offered the king.

His old impatience and keen disappointment because he was a prisoner when such great days were coming, returned with doubled vigor.

In every turn and double of the man's crafty mind I shall be supposed to have turned and doubled with him.