The army general led a successful rebellion and became president of the country.

We purchased a large quantity of rubber-sheeting and by judiciously folding this round everything clinkable we made such progress that the complaints were reduced to five.

The puppy had a sad little face.

As an expression of the iterative habitual suffixal -s is by no means recent. It is found in emigrant letters from the early nineteenth century. … O'Hara's uses as an inflected first person singular as an iterative habitual, e.g. I hopes the [ ] family are well …, I hopes you will except [sic!] my thanks for the same … (Kean O'Hara, 1818–19). This usage is still to be found in east coast varieties of Irish English.