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Meanings of multiply words in English

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Usage of multiply words in English
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But it's no use to multiply words about the matter.
Finger Posts on the Way of Life
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We will not, however, multiply words in the night air-ha!
The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
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The one never faileth to multiply words, and the other ever faileth to multiply gold.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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Feeling how useless it would be to multiply words, Claire turned away and left the store.
True Riches; Or, Wealth Without Wings
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But I need not multiply words.
The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3
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But, why need I multiply words?
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
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Proceed, sir, and don't multiply words.
The Lone Ranche
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Why should I multiply words?
The Works of Horace
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I might multiply words, but that one little sentence is, perhaps, more than all, "God loves me."
The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps
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But we need not multiply words over that one of all his compositions which Mr. Browning probably now respects the least.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 / A Magazine ...
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But it is needless to multiply words in a case so clear; and, indeed it is needless to say anything more about Mr Sadler's book.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Stay- Icangive you a better idea of her appearance than by multiplying words.
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
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The Christmas punch had made him merry; he multiplied words, and was even a little facetious at their expense.
Maurice Guest
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This sonorous balance of phrase and epithet cannot always escape what Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words."
Milton
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Sometimes we find that he multiplies words without amplifying the sense, and that the ear is gratified at the expense of the understanding.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
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Have the multiplied words of a statute an influence over the conscience and the heart, more powerful than that of reason and nature?
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
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