on the double

“He sent four lictors on the double to her insula with a message to her to bar herself in, and a message to Lucius Decumius to make sure neither he nor his tavernload of operators were in the Forum Romanum for the next few days.”

The First Man in Rome

“His failure to score on the double by Terry Pendleton ranks as one of the all-time boners in Series history.”

Simon & Schuster: Baseball’s Even Greater Insults

“I shall be on the watch to send you any thing that may appear here on the subjects of agriculture or the arts, which may be worth your perusal, I sincerely congratulate Mrs. Izard and yourself on the double accession to your family by marriage and a new birth.”

Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies

“The double bed had been transformed into a desk, sleep, and staging area; her thick Dell laptop sat open on its pillow-desk, and black binders filled with notes lay in a semicircle on the double bed.”

Courting Trouble

“Last year Howe hit extremely well, and pivoted on the double play almost as well as Bobby Doerr.”

Simon & Schuster: Baseball’s Even Greater Insults

“Having pursued with much zeal the study of optics, and experimented largely and carefully on the double refraction and polarization of light, he compiled a treatise on the subject for the “Encyclopaedia M.tropolitana” It has been translated into French by M. Quetelet; and both foreign and English men of science have been accustomed to regard it as indicating a new point of departure in the important branch of science to which it is devoted.”

The Story of the Herschels

“Eighteen miles is a long haul on the double time with all the stuff aboard, as well as the extra load of Anto’s rifle and pack with clothes, even though they were at acme shape.”

Simon & Schuster: A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

“Kipzak, or the Western Tartary, 17 was founded on the double motive of aiding the distressed, and chastising the ungrateful.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire