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The word "quadruple" has been used in literature to evoke both literal and metaphorical notions of multiplication and intensity. In some works, it symbolizes layered existence or expanded capacity, as seen in Joyce’s depiction of a multifaceted life in Ulysses [1] or in Drouet’s call for an exponential increase in love [2]. In narrative and poetic expressions, Byron and Poe employ the term to heighten dramatic claims and ethereal imagery, whether it be in matters of familial or spiritual bonds [3] [4]. Similarly, classical texts like Xenophon’s Anabasis [5] and Milton’s Areopagitica [6] use "quadruple" to emphasize hierarchical or supernatural magnitudes, while naturalist and sociological texts by Darwin and Burgess & Park use the term to illustrate physical or numerical progression [7] [8]. Even historical narratives, like Carlyle’s account of the French Revolution, adopt this term to intensify the portrayal of escalating forces [9], demonstrating its versatile function across genres and epochs.
  1. Leading a quadruple existence!
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  2. How you will have to double and treble and quadruple your love, to replace the dear memories I leave behind me!
    — from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud
  3. And as four wives must have quadruple claims, The Tigris hath its jealousies like Thames.
    — from Don Juan by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
  4. And, amid incense and high spiritual hymns, Laves in quadruple light her angel limbs.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  5. He could guarantee that each soldier should receive a daric a month as pay, the officers double pay, and the generals quadruple.
    — from Anabasis by Xenophon
  6. Sure they have a conceit, if he of the bottomless pit had not long since broke prison, that this quadruple exorcism would bar him down.
    — from Areopagitica by John Milton
  7. Look at a plant in the midst of its range; why does it not double or quadruple its numbers?
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  8. Why does it not double or quadruple its numbers?
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  9. It promised to be forty-eight thousand; but will in few hours double and quadruple that number: invincible, if we had only arms!
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

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