Double

Usage examples of twofold.

My goal has been twofold: to narrate the development of the various methods of making and breaking codes and ciphers, and to tell how these methods have affected men.

Hercules in the lower world and Hercules himself among the gods: treating the hero as existing in the two realms at once, he gives us a twofold Hercules.

For if we consider the adequate causes of filiation, we must needs say that there are two filiations in respect of the twofold nativity.

But early in the evening of that same day, at the corners of quiet streets, in the covered ways, by the doors of bazaars, among the horses tethered in the fondaks, wheresoever two men could stand and talk unheard and unobserved by a third, one secret message of twofold significance passed with the voice of smothered joy from lip to lip.

He was satisfied that either George Furbish or The Shadow would enter the twofold mesh.

The happiness I gave her increased mine twofold, for it has always been my weakness to compose the four-fifths of my enjoyment from the sum-total of the happiness which I gave the charming being from whom I derived it.

Why should you deny them this opportunity of indulging their twofold organisms, and beguiling the tedium of the voyage, merely because of some erroneous exhibition of fact?

Most conveniently the conversion is carried out by dissolving the ammo ester or mixture containing the ammo ester in a minimum amount of alcohol and adding to the mixture a twofold amount of 4 N alcoholic potassium hydroxide solution.

Ray did not succumb to the paralytic seizure occasioned by the twofold shock which she had experienced.

Dance Macabre attracted unaffiliated vampires to his banner, it served a twofold purpose.

I came for a twofold reason: to see how the Little Wren wears her new strength after her ordeal with the Waster, and to bring you word.

George and her sister Laura become her twofold brother and sister, the heavenly complication of more closely riveted ties, which would result from making George her brother-in-law as well as her brother, and Laura her sister-in-law as well as her sister, seemed to Louey one of those perfect arrangements which it might almost behove a deity to put himself out of the way to further.

I amalgamated divinities, sexes, and eternal attributes, the hardy Diana of the forests with the melancholy Bacchus, the vigorous Hermes of the palaestrae with the twofold god who sleeps, head on arm, like a fallen flower.

If, however, this form be taken in regard to the penitent who receives this favor, we find on his part a twofold movement of the free-will.

These served in a twofold capacity, both as seamarks by day, and for beacons by night.