| 1. | Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 3. | Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Peter, and represents the three divine powers the rest-ORDINES INFERIORES-of the ecclesiastical hierarchy bless in the name of the holy archangels and angels. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |