"Triplicate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I should explain that the names of places in these Straits frequently occur in duplicate, and even triplicate, which ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey
... Come! we will leave to the left the loud harmony of the Pleiades, and swoop outward from the throne into the starry meadows beyond Orion, where, for pansies and violets, and heart's-ease, are the beds of the triplicate and triple-tinted suns. ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe
... confirmed by the analogy of the monsters in the vegetable world also; in which a duplicate or triplicate production of various parts of the flower is observable, as a triple nectary in some columbines, and a triple petal in some primroses; and which are supposed to be produced by ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... very generous, but rather rash. For the victims took them at their word, and so by the time the perspiring Platoon Commanders had produced their returns (in triplicate) it was found that there were forty-three subjects to be provided for, including seven languages, six branches of science, four kinds of engineering, six commercial subjects and various sundries, such as metaphysics, wool-classing and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 5, 1919 • Various
... indorsement, but are of no value apart from the goods to which they give title. A bill of lading goes with certain named goods and cannot be transferred to other goods, even though of precisely the same kind and price. Marine bills of lading are usually made in triplicate; one is kept by the shipper, another by the vessel, and the third is sent by mail to the person to receive ...
— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various
... been pilfering wholesale so long as Mrs. Staines and her sloppy-headed maids counted the linen, and then forgot it, was brought up with a run, by triplicate forms, and by Staines counting the things before two witnesses, and compelling the washerwoman to count them as well, and verify or dispute on the spot. The laundress gave warning—a plain confession that stealing had been ...
— A Simpleton • Charles Reade |
