There is nothing surprising in this development, for a tobacco plant, unlike a grapevine or an olive tree, matures within a few months of its planting, and the tobacco habit at this time was a thing of comparably rapid growth in many parts of the world.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
Even tobacco and liquor were present in comparably liberal quantities.
"Gone Fishing"
James H. Schmitz
We cannot apprehend an object as sublime while we apprehend it as comparably, measurably, or finitely great.
"Oxford Lectures on Poetry"
Andrew Cecil Bradley