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The pleasures are decuples by being shared with friends.
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For nearly half of the year, then, irrigation adds seven thousand square miles to the humid surface of the Nile valley, or, in other words, more than decuples the area from which an appreciable quantity of moisture would otherwise be evaporated; for after the Nile has retired within its banks, its waters by no means cover one-tenth of the space just mentioned.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874
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For nearly half of the year, then, irrigation adds seven thousand square miles to the humid surface of the Nile valley, or, in other words, more than decuples the area from which an appreciable quantity of moisture would otherwise be evaporated; for after the Nile has retired within its banks, its waters by no means cover one-tenth of the space just mentioned.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
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The pleasures are decuples by being shared with friends.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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