Now let the centuple celves of my egourge as Micholas de Cusack calls them, — of all of whose. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Every word has a double, treble, or centuple use and meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
I also felt pain, and to avoid its endurance for me, I openly and avowedly burdened others with double, treble, centuple its amount. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
The Dauphiness (722) is said to have flung herself at the King of France's feet and begged his protection for her father; that he promised "qu'il le rendroit au centuple au Roi de Prusse.". From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
The vital principle of a bank is security in the regularity of its operations, and the immediate convertibility of its paper into coin; and what confidence could be reposed in an institution or its paper promises, when the sovereign could at any moment centuple those promises in the market, and seize upon all the money in the bank?. From Wordnik.com. [The Crayon Papers] Reference
Let the Austrian government send against us its threatened battalions, they will find in our breasts a barrier more insuperable than the Alps. Everything will be a weapon to us; from every villa, from every field, from every hedge, will issue defenders of the national cause; women and children will fight like men; men will centuple their strength, their courage; and we will all perish amid the ruins of our city, before receiving foreign rule into this land which at last we call ours. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
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