We were served a plateful of squiddy stuff.

the Schmalkaldic Wars

You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?

One of the patients, in the early stages of paresis, addressed the assemblage, and in the time allotted to him he was unable to portray fully his conception of his wealth and his own personal puissance, so great were his grandiose ideas. He had become a billionaire, a trillionaire, a sextillionaire; he had thousands of wives, millions of children, and in an ordinary day through the work of a million men, each with a million hands, he had constructed a concrete bridge across the Atlantic.