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Taking your memories as correct -- which they may not be; you could be recalling pieces of delirium -- you should be able to entertain the possibility that you and your friends had the bad luck to meet fools and brutes such as infest every outfit.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

They feed mostly on very small insects and eggs, such as infest the bark of trees, but will eat almost anything offered them; even meat they will peck from

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

Here were no cackling old women, or groaning Methodists, such as infest our English churches, and scare one's ears with hoarse coughs accompanied by the naso obligato.

Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

The food of the various Greenlets or Vireos is made up almost entirely of insects, of which a large per cent are caterpillars, such as infest shade trees and the larger shrubs.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

Some of these false notes proceed simply from the immense growth of every sort of facilitation -- so that people are much more free than of old to come and go and do, to inquire and explore, to pervade and generally "infest"; with a consequent loss, for the fastidious individual, of his blest earlier sense, not infrequent, of having the occasion and the impression, as he used complacently to say, all to himself.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

When it exists in connexion with an epidemic of fever, the development of malarial poison, or those debilitating influences which are the prolific sources of typhoids, and typhus, such as infest crowded camps, ill-ventilated Hospitals, and the confined Burden Cars in which soldiers are so frequently transported.

An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

This consists, for the most part, of caterpillars, particularly such as infest apple-trees.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

At the game of auctions, docks, shy wine-merchants, depend on it there is no winning; and I would as soon think of buying jewellery at an auction in Fleet Street as of purchasing wine from one of your dreadful needy wine-agents such as infest every man's door.

Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Here were no cackling old women, or groaning Methodists, such as infest our English churches, and scare one's ears with hoarse coughs accompanied by the naso obligato.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801

At the game of auctions, docks, shy wine-merchants, depend on it there is no winning; and I would as soon think of buying jewellery at an auction in Fleet Street as of purchasing wine from one of your dreadful needy wine-agents such as infest every man’s door.

Roundabout Papers 2006