It likewise alluded to several letters—which, it appeared to me, must have miscarried or been intercepted […].

If for duple we had substituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, sedecuple, 25ple.

Or a father reliving in sparse, Hemmingwayesque prose his moment of horrible truth: The news almost killed his mother.

For four days he worked hard at the cradle, although there was not the least occasion for it, since the proportion of gold in the dirt was so large that every cradleful of stuff yielded several pounds weight of the metal, and it could only be the work of a few hours when his father and brother returned.