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Doubles

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Doubles
See also Twins.
Amphitryon and Jupiter
god assumes man’s form to lie with his wife. [Rom. Lit.: Amphitryon]
Darnay, Charles
physical duplicate of Carton. [Br. Lit.: A Tale of Two Cities]
fetch
a Doppelganger. [Irish Folklore: Leach, 376]
My Double and How He Undid Me
story of a lazy minister who has his look-alike impersonator do all his chores. [Am. Lit.: Hayden & Fuller, 456]
Prince of Wales
switches places with his double, poor boy Tom Canty. [Am. Lit.: The Prince and the Pauper]
Sam and Eric
their identities merge as “Samneric.” [Br. Lit.: Lord of the Flies]
Sosia and Mercury
god assumes slave’s identity. [Rom. Lit.: Amphitryon]
Wilson, William
his Doppelganger ultimately kills him. [Am. Lit.: “William Wilson” in Portable Poe, 57–82]


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To-day we number four Emperors of the Abnormal Proboscis in good standing - doubles every four weeks, see?
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Our physicians have discovered that the small and tender sides of an infant Polygon of the higher class can be fractured, and his whole frame re-set, with such exactness that a Polygon of two or three hundred sides sometimes -- by no means always, for the process is attended with serious risk -- but sometimes overleaps two or three hundred generations, and as it were doubles at a stroke, the number of his progenitors and the nobility of his descent.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
When a whale smashes your boat, the thing to do is to get your belly across an oar, so that when the cold doubles you you'll float.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
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