Equalled

Examples

• This here red-nosed man, Sammy, wisits your mother-in-law vith a kindness and constancy I never see equalled. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And he hammered at me with a wigor only to be equalled by the wigor with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Its probability and its eligibility have really so equalled each other! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Only one other masonry arch has ever been built which equalled this in size. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange; but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river, that I never before saw equalled. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The self-sacrifice of Cecilia reveals a pure and womanly character, very seldom equalled, never surpassed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I should have said nothing could have equalled it; but I remember a fact which strangely astonished Caroline Helstone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• McClernand spoke first; and Logan followed in a speech which he has hardly equalled since for force and eloquence. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When this was effected I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equalled since. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The wages of the master mason, supposing him to have been without employment one-third of the year, would have fully equalled them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There was a tremendous rush into the electric-railway field after 1883, and an outburst of inventive activity that has rarely, if ever, been equalled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The devotion of Mr Sparkler was only to be equalled by the caprice and cruelty of his enslaver. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If the expense of his house and person either equalled or exceeded his revenue, as it did very frequently, he had no stock to employ in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Now that unchanged serenity, and gentle compliance were added to her other qualifications, his respect equalled his love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She seemed in no hurry to have them come, for her patience was equalled by her confidence. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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