She compares her state with his, and sighs over her own inferior circumstances, and repines at her humbler lot.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
While the work gives the state of the law of nations as it is, it compares the actual law with the standard of justice, and, by exhibiting the progress of science in a historical way, brings it into connection with the advances of humanity and civilization.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
One gets used to this, but it now and then grows galling when he compares himself with the folks who come out from the old country.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss