How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air of thedrawing-room? How can the grasp of the mind be vigorous, without action? Daughters of inherited wealth, or accumulated labor! the wide door of philanthropy is open peculiarly to you! Your life-work lies beyond your threshold: your wealth has placed you above the sorrowful struggle for daily bread which takes up the whole time of so many of your brothers and sisters. You are the almoners of God. A double accountability is yours.
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
I would kill to be on Dexter, and I would double kill to be on True Blood. I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.
Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep. . .
I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars. . .
It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.
I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing. "
I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.
Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.