Very generally, under a force double or tripleof the ordinary atmospheric pressure, they become one half or one third their former volume.
Freedom of government and freedom, of religion were, on the whole, assisted by this triple antagonism.
The magistrates were appointed by the stadholder, on a double or triple nomination from the municipal board.
The triple alliance with Sweden and Holland for a brief interval stayed the course of Louis XIV.
When u is preceded by r or l, the first portion of the triple sound is omitted and a double vowel sound is heard--the last part also being cut very short.
In 1883 Italy entered the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria, largely owing to her distrust of France.
The authentic history dates from 1385, the year of the accession of Margaret, the "Semiramis of the North," and wearer of the triple Scandinavian crowns.
The triple alliance was originally an agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, to strengthen their positions, and the Triple Entente consisted of agreements between France, England and Russia.
Germany anticipated the entry of Italy into the conflict as the third member of the Triple Alliance, but Italy did not regard Germany's action as defensive and declined to aid Austria.
In some places there is a triple rhyme, the last line reading thus: How many years before I dee?
He had been stirred to a momentary pride by the success of the Triple Alliance, but he had never in heart abandoned his older policy.
In such a war there was no formal breach of theTriple Alliance, for the Triple Alliance only guarded against an attack on the dominions of Spain, and Ashley and his colleagues were lured into assent to it in 1671 by the promise of toleration.
At the close of 1670 a large subsidy was demanded for the fleet under the pretext of upholding the Triple Alliance; and the subsidy was granted.
But the immediate gain was the least result of the Triple Alliance.
His efforts were foiled; but the "Triple Bond" bore within it the germs of the Grand Alliance which at last saved Europe.
With the ink of the Triple Alliance hardly dry Charles promised help in both these designs.
Few measures have won a greater popularity than this Triple Alliance.
Nothing marks better the political profligacy of the age than that Arlington, the author of the Triple Alliance, should have been chosen as the confidant of Charles in his Treaty of Dover.
Even Dryden, writing at the time as a Tory, counted among the worst of Shaftesbury's crimes that "the Triple Bond he broke.
The recall of Sir William Temple, the negotiator of the Triple Alliance, from his embassy at the Hague to fill the post of Secretary of State promised a foreign policy which would again place England high among the European powers.
A triple row of columns sustained the pediment, which was decorated with prancing horses coarsely sculptured.
Coming out upon the peristyle she swept with a loving glance the expanse of whitecapped sea, the port glistening like a triple mirror, the immense green valley, and the distant city, gilded by the first rays of the morning sun.
Within the harbor, above the reeds waving in the marshes, rose the masts of Carthaginian vessels anchored in the triple port.
The colored sail fluttered in the breeze without filling, but the triple banks of oars, with rhythmic movement along its flanks caused the vessel to spring over the white foam lashing the entrance of the canal.
The sun was in the zenith when the ship, with reefed sails, and driven by the triplebank of oars, stood into the channel which gave entrance to the port of Saguntum.
The three legates seated themselves in marble chairs near the image of the wolf, before the triplerow of white and motionless men.
He had refused him the Cardinalate simply because he foresaw the succession of a Medici to the Papal throne, whilst he purposed handing over the triple tiara to his son, Cardinal Piero de' Riari.
Bosc was the Protestant spokesman, speaking in his "triple capacity as a human being, a Frenchman and a Christian".
Thus, instead of bisecting the aggregate product into v and s, he posits a triple division: c, v, and s.
His criticism of Adam Smith's dogma affords a supreme example of his failure to cope with thetriple division of the national product towards which he had groped his way.
This, then, is an explicit expression of the triple division into constant capital, variable capital, and surplus value.
Italian dance in triple time, diversified with skips, for a single couple--also the music for such: an old form of round dance.
Hugh, the son of Eudes de Gournay, erected a castle in the vicinity of the church of St. Hildebert, and the whole town was surrounded with a triple wall and double fosse.
When he gave the signal, a triple drum roll, the colonists were to give back as if they were retreating, and follow his men in at the main gate and bar it after them.
The three companies met in the square, keeping order and rank as if it were a game, and as they saw their leader standing in the doorway in the red flame of the torches, they shouted the triple shout of victory.
An old Welsh harp, nottriple strung, exists, which bears a great resemblance to the Irish harp in neck, soundboard and soundholes.
The Archbishop of Paris is now in his ninety-sixth year, and at his death Cardinal Fesch is to be transferred to the see of this capital, in expectation of the triple crown and the keys of St. Peter.
You may, perhaps, object that France is not rich enough to keep up as numerous an army of spies as of soldiers; because the expense of the former must betriple the amount of the latter.
The pious Trojan then his javelin sent; The shield gave way; through triple plates it went Of solid brass, of linen triply rolled, And three bull-hides which round the buckler rolled.
It was divided by a triple peak and there was range upon range of mountains which suggests to Mr. Rockhill the Pacific coast of Luzon south of Cape Engano.
It is divided by a triple peak, and there are range upon range of mountains.
Calyx of 5 sepals united at the base into a short cup, imbricated in the bud, usually colored like the petals, at least within; the throat crowned with a double or triple fringe.
Leaves attenuate to both ends, with triple spines at the base.
This ambitious butcher looked with a pope's eye at thetriple crown of Rome, and set out for Italy, with plenty of gold, to carry his election to the papal chair by corruption and bribery.
Such frivolous reasoning is so unworthy the dignity of history, that we reject it at once, and confine ourselves to the simple fact, that the triple crown of Rome was always running in or about the head of the ambitious churchman.
Mine was to procure the Triple Crown for myself by the assistance of my sovereign and of the greatest foreign Powers.
The Graces", as will perhaps be remembered, was the triple portrait of Mrs Dobbs Broughton herself.
But the triple character, joined to the necessity of the double work, was distressing to him.
In her going out she willed to emerge as Three-Things, and this triple unit went off to the witchcraft play.
As she was returning, the first morning cock-crow also warned her to hasten, lest daybreak should find her triple unit outside of its fleshly "house.
Freed from these causes of friction, Great Britain, Russia, and France exert a restraining influence on the predominant partner in the Triple Alliance.
Community of interests in the Far East, as well as the need of protection against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy produced the entente cordiale between France and Russia in 1890.
Stirling, floated down the Harlem to threaten the southerly part of Laurel Hill; while the fourth, of British and Hessians, led by Earl Percy and accompanied by Howe, moved from Harlem Plain upon the triplelines of Harlem Heights.
Washington took position in their front, and for the protection of his army of about fourteen thousand fit for duty he fortified Harlem Heights with a triple line of intrenchments extending across Manhattan Island.
