Sentence examples for Social equals from inspiring English sources

But in Victorian pubs they were ubiquitous, allowing drinkers to mingle exclusively with their social equals.

They feel comfortable when they are with their own social equals," he says.

Tipping, the activists held, fostered a masterservant relationship that was ill suited to a nation in which people were meant to be social equals.

After years of being treated like intellectual and social equals abroad, they say, they are outraged at being treated like suspects in their homeland.

Assistants, like Faneuil, may aspire to be their bosses and see themselves as their social equals, while secretaries are more often denied the hope of advancement.

Male social equals called each other by their surnames, sometimes (but certainly not always) moving on to first names when the moment warranted it.

Collins, awful as he is, is actually her social equal.

But Rapayet is not Zaida's social equal.

Here, while officially employed as housekeeper to Fanny's brother, Sabrina was treated as a friend and social equal.

The real Tocqueville traveled to the United States for the same limited, original purpose, accompanied by Gustave de Beaumont, a social equal only three years older than himself.

In a traditional honor-based society, like the Old South, if you were insulted by a social equal, you challenged him to a duel, and if you were insulted by a social inferior, you bludgeoned him with a cane.