The ecstasy of passion reached by Miss Monflathers because Miss Edwards passed her without saluting her showed Dickens's attitude toward those who insisted and still insist on obeisance from those whom they are pleased to regard as "inferiors."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Anstey was not wont to mix with such, and the few female acquaintances the latter owned, though worthy people enough, were considerably his inferiors in the social scale.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
You forget that the Rajah may look down upon us as his inferiors.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn