Perhaps it would not have been decorous; they do not let ladies, either singly or Plurally, into the garden of the convent, which is memorable among many other facts as being the retreat of Mr. Commodus when he suffered from sleeplessness, and where he once carelessly left his list of victims lying about, so that his friend Marcia found it and, reading her name in it, joined with other friends in his assassination.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
But these, and many similar words, may be taken Plurally without the s, because a collective noun is the name of many individuals together.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown
For, "as follows," refers to what the arguments were,-to the things themselves, considered Plurally, and immediately to be exhibited; wherefore the expression ought rather to have been, "as follow," or, "as they here follow."
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown