The pirate felt its inferiority and retreated, while the conquerors continued their course.

The German Government, through one of its subordinate spokesmen, has lately admitted their inferiority in guns; their retreat, indeed, on the Somme before our pending attack, together with the state of their old lines, now we are in and over them, show plainly enough what they had to fear from the British guns and the abundance of British ammunition.

Women, Jack, tacitly acknowledge the inferiority of their sex, in the pride they take to behold a kneeling lover at their feet.

He was taller and heavier than Opeta, but showed his inferiority quickly.

What are the facts respecting the natural inferiority of the negro race, and their incompetency to manage their own affairs? Said Mr. Armstrong"The negroes are exceedingly quick to turn a thought.

William Pinkney, the antislavery leader of Maryland, believed also that Negroes are no worse than white people under similar conditions, and that all the colored people needed to disprove their so-called inferiority was an equal chance with the more favored race.

And who can point out any fundamental inferiority or superiority between them?

With comparatively few opportunities for combat because the enemy knew his inferiority and declined to fight unless forced, the pilots and observers from the moment our attack was about to start were always aggressive, and though the number of their victims may seem small compared with aerial victories on the Western Front they were substantial and important.

" The amorous savage betrays his inferiority to animals not only in his cruel maltreatment of girls before they have reached the age of puberty, but in his ignorance, in most cases, of the simplest caresses and kisses for which we often find corresponding acts in birds and other animals.

This invitation was of course accepted by H.S., who manifested a great inferiority of character to the other, and furnished an example of the blindness of the unjust to the justice of retribution, which they always feel to mere revenge and cruelty.

Petrarch proceeds to mention that he has also known sculptors, and asserts their inferiority to painters in modern times.

They explained their inferiority by the length of time that had elapsed since their navy had found on the ocean an enemy to fight.

Discipline compelled Washington to hold his subordinates at a distance of implied, if not asserted inferiority; and Burr never met a man to whom he thought himself inferior.

And bids me with th' unwilling chaplain rise.' Possibly the custom originally arose, not from any wish to mark the social inferiority of the chaplain, but because his presence was a check on conversation.

" Not that, in all probability, Paul and his archduchess noticed the inferiority.

It is only necessary to contrast the two finest cathedrals of this style, those of Siena and Orvieto, with two such buildings as the cathedrals of Rheims and Salisbury, in order to perceive the structural inferiority of the former, as well as their superiority for all subordinate artistic purposes.

If any one wants to criticise religion he should always bear in mind the nature of the great masses for which it is destined, and picture to himself their complete moral and intellectual inferiority.

But all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district-attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his "The court must define,"the poor court pleaded its inferiority.

"[G] "This implies," says a distinguished commentator upon Holy Writ, "that the woman was a perfect resemblance of the man, possessing neither inferiority nor superiority, but being in all things like and equal to himself.

How can Emma imagine she has anything to learn herself while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority?

"Have the enemies of the Queen reason to regret the cruise of the Coquette?" said la Belle, hurriedly, when she found her glance detected; "or have they dreaded to encounter a prowess that has already proved their inferiority?" "Fear, or prudence, or perhaps I might say conscience, has made them wary;" returned Ludlow, pointedly emphasizing the latter word.

It no more occurred to Macaulay to question the benefaction of English education and the supremacy of England's commerce and Constitution than it occurred to him to question the contemptible inferiority of the race among whom he was living, and for whom he mainly legislated.

We see him, unaided, ranging from end to end of the peninsula, none daring to meet him with opposing standards, and the greatest general of Rome winning laurels because he knew enough to recognise his own hopeless inferiority.

But afternoon tea was her privileged hourthe time at which she wore her prettiest frock, and forgot to regret her inferiority to Lesbia in all the graces of womanhood.

She had always compared the life of men with the life of women, and admitted and resented the inferiority of the latter.