"Equal to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... initiative and attack at once, trusting to their sudden appearance and the shots they could be creating a panic; for it was not likely that the enemy would imagine such an attack would be made unless by a force at least equal to ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... But what's to be done? Am I to announce, when I introduce you, that your knowledge of Egypt isn't equal to ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... handling his command, and his power of stimulating devotion, were not the only attributes which incited admiration. "With such qualities," it is said, "were united the utmost generosity and unselfishness, and a delicacy of feeling equal to a woman's." His loss came home with especial force to Jackson. After the unfortunate episode in the pursuit from Middletown, he had rated his cavalry leader in no measured terms for the indiscipline of his command; and for ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
... mind a reason why you should not think some passages in 'The Power of Sound' equal to anything I have produced. When first printed in the 'Yarrow Revisited,' I placed it at the end of the volume, and, in the last edition of my Poems, at the close of the Poems of Imagination, indicating thereby my ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... when the wind was light kept slowly gliding on over the calm surface of the deep. One night Archie Gordon had the middle watch. Scarce a breath filled the sails; the ocean was like glass; not a cloud dimmed the sky, from which the stars shone forth with a brilliancy which afforded light almost equal to that of the full moon; every star, reflected in the mirror-like deep, gave it the appearance of being spangled and streaked with gold. Suddenly there burst forth over the land so vivid a flash of lightning that rocks and trees ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
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