quintuply

Updated: April 30, 2025

Forgetting on the one hand that his right arm had been replaced by an iron hook, and on the other that a simple gutta-percha cap covered his brain-box, he had given himself a formidable blow. They hurried toward him, picked him up, restored him to life. And what were his first words? "Ah! trebly brutes! quadruply idiots! quintuply boobies that we are!" "What is it?" exclaimed everyone around him.

Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon

I had not expected a letter; and what a comfort it was to me in my loneliness and sombreness! Then I read, and re-read, and re-re-read, and quadruply, quintuply, and sextuply re-read my epistle, until I had it all by heart, and then continued to re-read it for the sake of the penmanship.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.