Adjectives are compared by using suffixes as follows: Positive Comparative Superlative clārus, -a, -um ( bright ) ( Base clār- ) clārior, clārīus ( brighter ) clārissimus, -a, -um ( brightest ) brevis, breve ( short ) ( Base brev- ) brevior, brevius ( shorter ) brevissimus, -a, -um ( shortest ) vēlōx ( swift ) ( Base veloc- ) vēlōcior, vēlōcius ( swifter ) vēlōcissimus, -a, -um ( swiftest ) a.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Adjectives are compared by using suffixes as follows: Positive Comparative Superlative clârus, -a, -um ( bright ) (Base clâr- ) clârior, clârîus ( brighter ) clârissimus, -a, -um ( brightest ) brevis, breve ( short ) (Base brev- ) brevior, brevius ( shorter ) brevissimus, -a, -um ( shortest ) vêlôx ( swift ) (Base veloc- ) vêlôcior, vêlôcius ( swifter ) vêlôcissimus, -a, -um ( swiftest ) a.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

says our good-tempered informant, when he sees us shrink away from Pollybus, changing sides at a signal from his cleaner; "these horses" (we look round, and for the first time perceive, with a tremor, the heels of another high-mettled racer protruding from an adjoining stall) "these horses are as quiet as you are; and—I say it without offense—just as well-behaved.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

The cry of police had at the same instant produced a universal scattering, and five policemen, coming on the ground, found scarcely any one to separate or capture.
— from The Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

To Great Britain, North America, the West India Islands, United States, and Foreign Ports, consisted of 284,526 casks of sugar, 716,545 gallons of rum, 5910 gallons of molasses, 160,510 pounds of cotton, 4 l. sterling worth of dyeing woods, and 48,000 l. worth of other miscellaneous articles, which together amounted to £592,596 9 0 table reorganised to improve readability Shipping Inwards, 1831.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

London, as we know, has ever (p. 233) been more utilitarian than antiquarian; and perhaps the old house owes its escape so far to the fact that "it has been used successively as farmhouse, pottery, cloth manufactory, and patent cask factory.
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook

Received basic United States and French patents covering same, in 1872.
— from The Invention of the Track Circuit The history of Dr. William Robinson's invention of the track circuit, the fundamental unit which made possible our present automatic block signaling and interlocking systems by American Railway Association

When sons and daughters grow up sickly and feeble, parents commonly regard the event as a misfortune—as a visitation of Providence.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

Break sugar and lard up, same as for pie crust, slowly adding the eggs, few at a time, till used up.
— from Book of American Baking A Practical Guide Covering Various Branches of the Baking Industry, Including Cakes, Buns, and Pastry, Bread Making, Pie Baking, Etc. by Various