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"Double play" Quotes from Famous Books

... with ease before Cogern could get much more than halfway down the line, and a double play had been made, which retired Camden with a whitewash ...

— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish

... the backing he finds in it, or the response which he may enlist for his revolt from it. Both of these are true statements of the case; as to which is ultimate, that is the old and rather academic question of whether the oak or the acorn comes first. We repeat that it is impossible, in this double play of cause and effect, to say which is the ultimate cause and which the effect. The controversy which was waged in the nineteenth century between the schools of Buckle and Carlyle is likely to go on indefinitely through the future. But what concerns ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... double play!" he exulted, for the man going to first had stumbled slightly, and was out of his stride. It looked as though it could be done. But alas for the hopes of Yale! The fielder got the ball fairly in his hands, but whether he was nervous, or whether the ball had such speed that it tore through, ...

— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes

... les as et les rois, the leading honors at cards. There is a double play on these words in what follows. First, the countess gently reproaches Henri for failing in the traditional loyalty of his family to the restored royal family; then, secondly, she alludes to the rivalry of herself and Leonie as a ...

— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve

... the reality which is created, is vital activity, of which spiritual activity represents the highest form; and the spray which falls is the creative act which falls, it is reality which is undone, it is matter and inertia. In a word, the supreme law of genesis and fall, the double play of which constitutes the universe, comprises a ...

— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy