The study of Portugal takes on a new dignity and importance when we reflect that she has given language, institutions, and laws to half of South America and to a population that already outnumbers her own four to one.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
"The enemy's army," he remarked just after breakfast, "outnumbers ours by more than a fourth; nevertheless we have ninety chances out of a hundred in our favour."
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Thy troop outnumbers his.
"More Bywords"
Charlotte M. Yonge