THE READER: One of the things Robert K. Massie reveals in his magisterial biography of Catherine the Great, at No. 8 in its sixth week on the hardcover nonfiction list, is that the empress had a voracious appetite for books — especially as an escape from her prosaic husband, Czar Peter III, whose conversation was "of a dullness," Massie quotes her saying, "that I have never seen equaled.
I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to rock.
Grap pointed out a freshly installed piece of mahogany trim, up near the ceiling of the rebuilt porch, and Sadler, very pleased, said, "In all my years, I've never seen work to equal this".
I have never seen a match to equal that storm.
"They have won for so long, but I've never seen them as equal, as close to each other, as they are right now.
I have never seen a center who was his equal at backing up a line and then protecting both flanks.
Not surprisingly, employers have never seen fit to grant union representatives the same equal right to address employees.
