"Fivefold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however, the problem of the treatment of wounds—while there should be perfect cleanliness, the spotlessness of the model housekeeper multiplied fivefold—is yet not so much a matter of keeping dirt in general out of the wound, as of keeping out that particular form of dirt which consists of or contains, discharges from some previous ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson
... who brought water to Montezuma have now increased to twenty; but, as the Spanish writers claimed a wide latitude in the matter of numbers, fivefold is not, perhaps, unreasonable, especially as it did not occur to Herrera that Diaz may, at the outset, have quadrupled the actual number. The "three or four hundred youths" who brought in the dinner, according to Cortes, settle down under Herrera ...
— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan
... got over with dry feet, but still no one was drowned, and upon the whole Chapeau was considered to be entitled to the thanks of the whole army for the success of his invention. He had certainly accelerated their passage fivefold. ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope |
