All Kurt's dread of calamity returned fourfold.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Close by is the resting-place of Thomas Boston, that earlier "Ettrick Shepherd" whose "fourfold State" and "Crook in the Lot" are not yet forgotten.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
It only remains to be observed, with regard to theft, that when cattle was recovered yet alive, the thief restored double, but when his act was consummated by slaughtering what he had taken, then he restored a sheep fourfold, and for an ox five oxen, because his villainy was more high-handed.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick