reduplicating

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Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones—whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets—and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.

From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Reid, Mayne

No amount of after manipulation could condone so vicious a slaughter of space and line opportunities which the background, with its reduplicating edge, accomplishes.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin

It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth!

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.

Somewhere in this great, multitudinous mass of humanity he is sinning and sinning and reduplicating and extending the sin that you did.

From Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks by Brooks, Phillips

Intelligence, he thought, is no miraculous, idle faculty, by which we mirror passively any or everything that happens to be true, reduplicating the real world to no purpose.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George