Positive Comparative Superlative facilis, -e , easy facilior, -ius facillimus, -a, -um difficilis, -e , hard difficilior, -ius difficillimus, -a, -um similis, -e , like similior, -ius simillimus, -a, -um dissimilis, -e , unlike dissimilior, -ius dissimillimus, -a, -um gracilis, -e , slender gracilior, -ius gracillimus, -a, -um humilis, -e , low humilior, -ius humillimus, -a, -um 308.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

And, all unsuspected, those missiles the Martians had fired at us drew earthward, rushing now at a pace of many miles a second through the empty gulf of space, hour by hour and day by day, nearer and nearer.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

En esto se adelantó uno de los mozos, se dirigió a una de ellas, y a guisa de invitación hízole una Ligera venia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

ab usque Divis et Serendivis.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Mumps one pound, that is what I have put down, but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings—don't speak—measles one five, German measles half a guinea, makes two fifteen six—don't waggle your finger—whooping-cough, say fifteen shillings”—and so on it went, and it added up differently each time; but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

And first he laces to his feet the shoes of gold that bear him high winging over seas or land as fleet as the gale; then takes the rod wherewith he calls wan souls forth of Orcus, or sends them again to the sad depth of hell, gives sleep and takes it away and unseals dead eyes; in whose strength he courses the winds and swims across the tossing clouds.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Dreser, H. Ueber die Messung der durch pharmakologische Agentien Bedingten Veränderungen der Arbeitsgrösse und der Elasticitatszustände des Skeletsmuskels.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Después arrójeme usted de esta casa, donde he nacido.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Such was the domestic occupation of women in the rural districts in olden times; and it may perhaps be questioned whether the revolution in our social system, which has taken out of their hands so many branches of household manufacture and useful domestic employment, be an altogether unmixed blessing.
— from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

When the heart is still young and tender, how spontaneously and sweetly and urgently does every vision of goodness and nobleness in the conduct of another awaken the impulse to go and do likewise!
— from Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken

The foregoing would seem to imply that the rulers were succeeded by their eldest sons if the latter were of age and otherwise generally acceptable; and that, if they were minors when their fathers died, their paternal uncles, if any, or otherwise some capable man selected by the priests, took the reins of government, instructing the heir in the duties of the position which he was to occupy some day; and finally that the regent did not lay down his authority until death, even though the heir had previously attained his majority.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

He had also given Toby fully a dozen circus tickets for distribution among his friends; and then, as Uncle Daniel entered, he said: [101] "I wish to express thanks—both for myself and my wife Lilly—for the very kind manner in which you have entertained us to-day."
— from Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' by James Otis

LETTERS AND COMMENTS BY Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Josephine K. Henry, Frances E. Willard, Eva A. Ingersoll, Mary A. Livermore, Irma von Troll-Borostyani, Mrs. Jacob Bright, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Anonymous, Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Ednah D. Cheney, Sarah A. Underwood, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell, Ursula N. Gestefeld, E. M., Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sarah M. Perkins, and Catharine F. Stebbins.
— from The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

But this is “another story”; it is fitting that the youngsters take precedence; Lyn Dyer and Uncle Dan, Edith and her father.
— from Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Often and often his thoughts turned to the father who had been snatched from him by a sudden and untimely death, especially when he saw the boys of his school who were fortunate enough to possess both parents; but often as his thoughts went to his father, he rarely spoke of him to his mother.
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)