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In fourteen years from the first issue of small notes, the number of convictions had been centupled.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

That sum in other cases is an insult, which, being centupled, would be an honourable expression of distinguished merit.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

And, like to that grain of powder which, burning, dilates into a centupled volume, D'Artagnan, enlarged by ideas and suspicions, rapidly reascended the stairs toward the terrace.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

The surprises are centupled in the animal; and are raised to an unknown degree in man.

From Cæsar or Nothing by How, Louis

The effect is that of the Zalinski shell, but centupled by the infinite power of Roch’s fulgurator.

From Facing the Flag by Verne, Jules