If I had really produced this impression, he was my inferior in station, and it would be cruel to leave it. "Basil" by Wilkie Collins

Because, said the old general, with a voice not so firm as usual, I have always told you that a lady is not to be inferior to a gentleman in any virtue except courage. "Foul Play" by Charles Reade Dion Boucicault

Keep my resignation, gentlemen, and bear witness that I am free from all military duty at the moment I tell this man that he is no longer my chief, and consequently that I am not his inferior. "The Prussian Terror" by Alexandre Dumas