Arthur William Trollope (1768-1827), who succeeded Boyer as Upper Grammar Master.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Positive Comparative Superlative bon us, -a, -um , good mel ior , mel ius , better opt imus, -a, -um , best mal us, -a, -um , bad pe ior , pe ius , worse pess imus, -a, -um , worst magn us, -a, -um , great ma ior , ma ius , greater max imus, -a, -um , greatest mult us, -a, -um , much ——, plûs, more plûr imus, -a, -um , most parv us, -a, -um , small min or , min us , smaller min imus, -a, -um , smallest sen ex , sen is , old sen ior max imus nâtû iuven is, -e , young iûn ior min imus nâtû vet us , vet eris , old vetust ior, -ius veter rimus, -a, -um facil is, -e , easy facil ior, -ius facil limus, -a, -um difficil is, -e , difficult difficil ior, -ius difficil limus, -a, -um simil is, -e , similar simil ior, -ius simil limus, -a, -um dissimil is, -e , dissimilar dissimil ior, -ius dissimil limus, -a, -um humil is, -e , low humil ior, -ius humil limus, -a, -um gracil is, -e , slender gracil ior, -ius gracil limus, -a, -um exter us , outward exter ior , outer, exterior extrê mus ext imus outermost, last înfer us , below înfer ior , lower înf imus îmus lowest poster us , following poster ior , later postrê mus post umus last super us , above super ior , higher suprê mus sum mus highest [cis, citrâ, on this side ] citer ior , hither citi mus , hithermost [in, intrâ, in, within ] inter ior , inner int imus , inmost [prae, prô, before ] pr ior , former prî mus , first [prope, near ] prop ior , nearer prox imus , next [ultrâ, beyond ] ulter ior , further ult imus , furthest 476.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Last week I was dragged out of a river like a drowned rat, and lost a bran-new night-cap, with a sulfer stayhook, that cost me a good half-a-crown, and an odd shoe of green gallow monkey; besides wetting my cloaths and taring my smuck, and an ugly gash made in the back part of my thy, by the stump of a tree—To be sure Mr Clinker tuck me out of the cox; but he left me on my back in the water, to go to the ‘squire; and I mought have had a watry grave, if a millar had not brought me to the dry land—But, O!
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was impossible to possess a more equal and pleasing vivacity, or more real and unaffected gracefulness, more natural talents, or cultivated with greater taste; join to all these good qualities an affectionate heart, but loving rather too diffusively, and bestowing his favors with too little caution; serving his friends with zeal, or rather making himself the friend of every one he could serve, yet contriving very dexterously to manage his own affairs, while warmly pursuing the interests of others.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

May, 1811"), Reynolds' God's Revenge against … Murder , 1651 ("O what a beautiful concordia discordantium is an unthinking good man's soul!"), The History of Philip de Commines in English, and Petwin's Letters Concerning the Mind .
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Positive Comparative Superlative bon us, -a, -um , good mel ior , mel ius , better opt imus, -a, -um , best mal us, -a, -um , bad pe ior , pe ius , worse pess imus, -a, -um , worst magn us, -a, -um , great ma ior , ma ius , greater max imus, -a, -um , greatest mult us, -a, -um , much ——, plūs, more plūr imus, -a, -um , most parv us, -a, -um , small min or , min us , smaller min imus, -a, -um , smallest sen ex , sen is , old sen ior max imus nātū iuven is, -e , young iūn ior min imus nātū vet us , vet eris , old vetust ior, -ius veter rimus, -a, -um facil is, -e , easy facil ior, -ius facil limus, -a, -um difficil is, -e , difficult difficil ior, -ius difficil limus, -a, -um simil is, -e , similar simil ior, -ius simil limus, -a, -um dissimil is, -e , dissimilar dissimil ior, -ius dissimil limus, -a, -um humil is, -e , low humil ior, -ius humil limus, -a, -um gracil is, -e , slender gracil ior, -ius gracil limus, -a, -um exter us , outward exter ior , outer, exterior extrē mus ext imus outermost, last īnfer us , below īnfer ior , lower īnf imus īmus lowest poster us , following poster ior , later postrē mus post umus last super us , above super ior , higher suprē mus sum mus highest [cis, citrā, on this side ] citer ior , hither citi mus , hithermost [in, intrā, in, within ] inter ior , inner int imus , inmost [prae, prō, before ] pr ior , former prī mus , first [prope, near ] prop ior , nearer prox imus , next [ultrā, beyond ] ulter ior , further ult imus , furthest 238 476.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Among the adjectives that are compared irregularly are Positive Comparative Superlative bonus, -a, -um , good melior, melius optimus, -a, -um magnus, -a, -um , great maior, maius maximus, -a, -um malus, -a, -um , bad peior, peius pessimus, -a, -um multus, -a, -um , much ——, plūs plūrimus, -a, -um multī, -ae, -a , many plūrēs, plūra plūrimī, -ae, -a parvus, -a, -um , small minor, minus minimus, -a, -um 312.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

—At Ulm General Mack, with eight field-marshals, seven lieutenant-generals, and 33,000 men surrender.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Rightly spelled Stephens, afterwards Under Grammar Master at the school.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

and when those that are within it are under greater miseries than if they were taken, although their walls be still standing?
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

among us, generous men, there are some predestined to brutishness; and the more perfect our industry becomes, the larger will grow the number of our accursed brothers! . . . .
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

No doubt the Crown has an unusually good memory— nullum tempus occurrit regi .
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

Her comments were delightfully frank and original, as she had an unusually good memory.
— from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell

Remember that the licence not allowed to an unmarried girl may justifiably be employed by a widow.”
— from The Under-Secretary by William Le Queux

She had shown in various ways that she liked him, and calling him to her side soon after he came in, she talked to him in an unusually genial manner.
— from The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss

A fondness for lions and tigers gives sympathy for them, sympathy gives understanding of them, and understanding gives mastery of them, or as much mastery as is possible.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

Mrs. Boynton, however, preferring such road as there was, had been walking her horse along it in the expectation of being rejoined, when the sudden firing of an unseen gun made her Arab bolt.
— from The Potter's Thumb by Flora Annie Webster Steel

But that only refers to a distant revision of creations which an unchecked genius may have produced under the divine influence.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

As usual, `good men daring not, and wise men caring not', but only fools and schemers taking part in the election, no serious opposition to his usurpation was encountered.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

“You deceived me about Ursula, giving me to understand she was not married.”
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow