That is, he proposed the formation of a Quintuple Alliance which would constitute itself primate over all nations and the arbiter in world affairs, a scheme of organization very similar to the one proposed by General Smuts.

By adopting the scheme of an oligarchy of the Great Powers he silenced the dangerous opposition of the French and British members of the Commission who willingly passed over minor defects in the plan provided this Concert of Powers, this Quintuple Alliance, was incorporated in the Covenant.

In place of the Triple Alliance and the Entente has arisen the Quintuple Alliance which is to rule the world.

Adj. five, quinary^, quintuple; fifth; senary^, sextuple; sixth; seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal, denary^, decuple^, tenth; eleventh; duodenary^, duodenal; twelfth; in one's 'teens, thirteenth.

Colonel Florence submitted the following sentiment: "The American Minister to France, whose intervention defeated the quintuple treaty.

Since he was forty-three he had quintupled his fortune.

He afterwards sent it to the press; and the studied trumpet-tones of eulogy, conferring upon Michelangelo the quintuple crown of pre-eminence in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and loving, sounded from Venice down to Naples.

Stores and shops have multiplied astonishingly; I can safely say that their number has more than quintupled since the abolition of slavery."Dr.

Stores and shops have multiplied astonishingly; I can safely say that their number has more than quintupled since the abolition of slavery."Dr.

* TORTURE QUINTUPLE.

On the contrary, its depth is quintupled.

Love is simply an extension of this process-making it efficacious before marriage and thus quintupling its importance.

O-po-tae dreading the vengeance of Paou and his mistress, Ching-yih's widow, whose united forces would have quintupled his own, gained over his men to his views, and proffered a submission to Government, on condition of free pardon, and a proper provision for all.

Taking the message as his letter of instructions, our then minister at Paris felt himself required to assume the same ground in a remonstrance which he felt it to be his duty to present to Mr. Guizôt, and through him to the King of the French, against what has been called the "quintuple treaty;" and his conduct in this respect met with the approval of this Government.

I informed the Senate, in the message transmitting the treaty with England of the 9th of August last, that no application or request had been made to this Government to become a party to the quintuple treaty.

[Footnote 90: Correspondence with the United States minister to France relative to the quintuple treaty of December 20, 1841, and the Ashburton treaty of August 9, 1842.] WASHINGTON, February 27, 1843.