Twice or thrice he rose from his chair, paced the room with a determined brow, and sat down again with vigorous clutch of the pen; still he failed to excogitate a single sentence that would serve his purpose.
The curious thing about it is that it won't grow unless you have just twice as much faith in it as is required for assent to the Athanasian Creed.
I thought at first of taking a flat; but then a flat of the kind I should want would be twice the rent of a large house.
Milvain was so busy that he had only been able to look in twice or thrice since Christmas, and Reardon nowadays never went to Jasper's lodgings.
Edwin had always been a favourite with his grandfather, though they had met only once or twice during the past eight years.
Marian and he were together twice a week, in the evening.
He remained for an hour, and before his departure the subject was discussed with rather more frankness than at first; even the word 'money' was once or twice heard.
Twice in the course of the summer he inquired of his wife whether she knew anything about the Milvains.
If, as happened once or twice in half a year, several of them were gathered together at his house, he tasted a sham kind of social and intellectual authority which he could not help relishing.
Once ortwice a shudder of strange self-consciousness went through her, and she felt guilty, immodest; but upon that sensation followed a surge of passionate joy, obliterating memory and forethought.
He sent me a copy of his novel,' she said, 'and I saw him once or twice after that.
Once or twice he presented himself personally at offices, but his reception was so mortifying that death by hunger seemed preferable to a continuance of such experiences.
Father Nicholas had not the faintest idea of the importance of the question, when one morning, during the Latin lesson which he administered twice a week to the young ladies of the Castle, Doucebelle asked him the precise meaning of adoro.
The ninth was an illuminated copy of the Brut, which of course began, as all chronicles then did, with the creation; but Belasez looked through it twice without finding any thing to satisfy her.
His companion, however, had twice in that time replenished his beaker, and was now puffing out the smoke of his pipe with the fury of a steamer's funnel when she has not yet burned the black off her last instalment of fresh coals.
Twice during this little conversation Lady Glencora had looked up, catching Alice's eye, and Alice had well known what she had meant.
That he kneels there on every occasion," said Kate, "and repeats his offer also twice a week, I have not the least doubt in the world.
He had drank no wine that day, although she had brought it to him twice during the morning.
Mr Grey read it twice over, leaving the other letters unnoticed on the table by his tea-cup.
She hastwice more go in her than Planty Pall," said another.
She felt quite sure of that;--though Jeffrey Palliser did take great trouble to teach her the game, and once or twice made her laugh heartily by quizzing the Duchess's attitude as she stood up to make her stroke.
He read it twice before he began to think what he would do in regard to it, and then referred to one or two others which he had received from Switzerland,--reading them also very carefully.
You only danced twice last night, and once you stood up with Captain Bellfield.
Once or twice Kate repeated her conviction that she should never again see her brother.
Indeed, at this time he wrote no letters to his sister, though she twice sent to him, knowing what his exigencies would be, and made further tenders of her own money.
In the first quarter of an hour after the younger ladies had gone, he said little or nothing, but sat with a wine-glass before him, which once or twice he filled from the decanter.
That word "husband," which her cousin had twice used, was painful to Alice's ear.
Such an opportunity may not come twice in a man's life.
Twice in the week concerts are executed by the first performers of the opera-bouffe; andtwice in the week invitations to tea-parties are sent to some of the neighbours, or accepted from them.
I have only twice in my life been in Schimmelpenninck's company, and I thought him both timid and reserved; but from what little he said, I could not possibly judge of his character and capacity.
When he arrives at a place where there is a boss in his trade, if there is no work for him, each journeyman gives him something, and the boss twice as much.
There are not over two millions of the solid coin used as a basis for the operations which in a single month represent a sum twice the amount of our national debt.
Yet she knew that there was love in the child's heart, although it mostly revealed itself in passion, and hardly twice in her lifetime had been softened by such gentleness as now.
Yet Pearl, twice in her little lifetime, hath been kind to me!
Thou wilt have twice as much love henceforward as thy mother alone could give thee!
What is it men say they detest, Yet allus like that chap the best 'At gives em twice as mich as th' rest?
And withal they never worried her by interferences and criticisms; they never presumed on their hospitality, but left her as free as though her age had been twice what it was.
I go into the shop sometimes; and then I've seen him once or twice up at the new house.
The cover also bore, in the same handwriting, the word "Private," twice underlined.
Lizzie and I were carrying down our baskets at four o'clock that day, when we heard a sound of musketry on the St. Veep shore and on top of it a bugle twice blown.
Twice he's said so, and twice I've called him a liar.
Once or twice in particularly bad moments he had caught himself blubbering, and with a deadly shame.
But once or twice we were fairly staggered by the blind rage which had passed over a mansion crowded with valuables and wrecked a dozen poor habitations all around it.
Then he seemed to think better of it, and we moved forward; but twice again before we reached dry land he turned and addressed the soldiers in furious Spanish across the babble of the ford.
But we had to do with decent men, who showed themselves friendly not only in the house but in their camp down by the ford, whither, after the first morning, Lizzie and I trudged it twice a day with baskets of provisions.
But a staff officer can swagger through some small difficulties, as I had already proved twicethat night.
My savings were twice as large as yours; but now that they are gone, and I can no longer perform my share of the bargain, I fear our partnership must be dissolved.
And when she found out that his lower lip was becoming so big that it spoilt his beauty, and that his wilfulness gained his way twice and stood in his way eight times out of ten, it was too late to alter him.
Many years ago, there lived a certain worthy man who was twice married.
Thus the Knave hadtwice as much as the Fool, who could not see where he had been cheated.
By this means the Fool did twice as much work as the Knave, and yet he could not complain.
And I have not seen a respectable girl of my acquaintance in at least that time, except once or twice when I happened to have assignments that took me near Fifth Avenue in the afternoon.
In a similar manner the antimony ore,[57] if free from other metals, is reduced in upper pots which are twice as large as the lower ones.
But each time a less weight of stibium is added to the gold, until finally only twice as much stibium is added as there is gold, or a little more; then the gold lump is melted in a cupel.
The wheel has sixty teeth, since it is necessary that the rundle drum should revolve twice while the toothed wheel revolves once.
A tunnel is a subterranean ditch driven lengthwise, and is nearly twice as high as it is broad, and wide enough that workmen and others may be able to pass and carry their loads.
Indeed, the yearly profit of a lead mine in comparison with the fruitfulness of the best fields, is three times or at least twice as great.
They have passed dozens of editions in various languages, and have been twicetranslated into English.
It is opened in order that the workman, passing through it, may be enabled to enter the chamber and remove the soot and pompholyx[26] and chip off the cadmia; this sweeping is done twice a year.
If you want the gold to be good always add to the button twice as much spiesglass.
The cakes of melted pyrites are usually roasted twice over, and those of cadmia once.
It is washed over again once or twicein the same way and thus made pure.
In the above paragraph he says from ore "once or twice smelted they make iron," etc.
The stamp-stems of the upper machines should be nearly twice as long as the stems of the lower ones, because all the mortar-boxes are placed on the same level.
When these men bring down ore from mountains which do not have such declivities, they use wagons whose beds are twice as long as those of the carts.
He attended all the regattas as a matter of business, as well as of pleasure; and he had seen the Sea Foam beaten twice by the Skylark since he won the memorable race in the former.
No; my tender is twice as heavy as yours," added Robert.
Another man plunged headlong down twice the height of the Tay bridge into the water.
The seventh time his charge is a boy, so weak and helpless that he loses his hold upon him twice, and twice he dives for him into the seething depths and brings him up.
It is twice as thick as that lady's work-box, but this one Book contains all that God has said to man; and the print is so clear.
Twice she was held up by Federal sentinels and twice she showed them Federal passes.
This it seems was Miss Theky's birthday, upon which I made her my compliments, and wished she might live twice as long a married woman as she had lived a maid.
Twice a year they held the Lord's Supper and this lasted for four days, with religious services each day.
She was twice captured by English cruisers, but somehow found her way back again to the old and nefarious business.
It would be interesting to dilate upon the past history of Martinique, for it has known not a little of the checkered vicissitudes of these Antilles, having been twice captured by the English, and twice restored to France.
To obtain these skins of a uniform fineness of texture, the fawns are killed when but eight or ten days old; the available product got from each one is so small as hardly to exceed twice the size of one's hand.
Once or twice since that date ominous mutterings have been heard from Mont Pelee, which it is confidently predicted will one day deluge St. Pierre with ashes and lava, repeating the story of Pompeii.
Of the eight hundred thousand families at that period, one half had animal food twice a week.
Depend upon it, they would be going twice as fast as that if they were alone.
I go call oders;" and loading himself with twice as much as we could have attempted to carry, he hurried back to the camp.
Twice Donald fired, and each time brought down an animal.
Hitched in front of one of the stores was the same little Texan pony and peculiar saddle that I had seen twice before.
I told him that I had twice tried to operate as a detective and had failed, and the more I tried it the less I liked it.
Myself and sixty others were captured, and as many horses and twice as many saddles and arms, with their accouterments.
Twice he put his balls within an inch of my head; once a sliver from the timber under which I shot was knocked off and struck me on the head, hurting me considerably.
His law allows him to divorce his wife twice and take her back, but if he divorce her the third time, he may not take her back until she has been married to another man and divorced by him.
This same daughter has been married and divorced twice since then, and is now living at home, and is at the head of a Mohammedan school for girls.
The marriage took place, within two months Fatimah had returned home but was induced to go back again, this was repeated twice and on returning home the third time, she made up her mind to get her husband to permanently divorce her.
Only twice in our vast crowded city (though making from six to eight hundred visits in the homes yearly) have I been refused liberty to speak for Jesus and NEVER been denied admittance.
She has been divorced twice already from drunken, dissolute husbands.
Once or twice they met somebody who had something else to tell, and they stood on the pavement together and thrashed the matter out.
Once or twice his gaze left her to dwell on Simon, but it was always to the more dramatic figure that it returned.
It would give me fits to have the sea knocking twice a day at my back door.
I'll be bound you'd never think twice about t'brass if you and Eliza was friends.
Once or twice she ran down the bank and on to the sand, but always something drew her back, and at last, when she had listened so long that she had ceased to hear, there came the crunching sound of the Thornthwaite wheels.
You know I deliver orders over there twice a week for Mr. Harriman.
Bed and table linen wore out twice as fast as it should, Janice knew.
If I am to be lazy all my days, let the Sea work for me twice a day for ever.
Where I come from we each eat twiceas much as that between meals.
See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen may be saved paddling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
