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THRICE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Three times
Example:
I called you thrice last night
Classified under:
Context examples:
And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by chambermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Rochester came thrice to my door in the course of it, to ask if I was safe and tranquil: and that was comfort, that was strength for anything.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My aunt put on her spectacles twice or thrice, to take another look at me, but as often took them off again, disappointed, and rubbed her nose with them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The killing of a polar bear is very dangerous, but thrice dangerous is it, and three times thrice, to kill a mother bear with her cubs.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Thrice it swelled forth and thrice it sank away, echoing and reverberating amidst the crags.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Again: because it is a general complaint, that the favourites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories; the same doctor proposed, that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business, with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should, at his departure, give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech; or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness; and at every levee day, repeat the same operation, till the business were done, or absolutely refused.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The wondrous shock of feeling had come like the earthquake which shook the foundations of Paul and Silas's prison; it had opened the doors of the soul's cell and loosed its bands—it had wakened it out of its sleep, whence it sprang trembling, listening, aghast; then vibrated thrice a cry on my startled ear, and in my quaking heart and through my spirit, which neither feared nor shook, but exulted as if in joy over the success of one effort it had been privileged to make, independent of the cumbrous body.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
While I had been away from home lately, Traddles had called twice or thrice.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Norbury tugged thrice with all his strength upon the cord, and then lowered himself over the edge, while a hundred anxious faces peered over at him as he slowly clambered downwards to the end of the rope.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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