cultured class
Example Sentences
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He comes back to his former word 'ignorance,' bitter pill as it was for the Athenian cultured class to swallow.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander
And it is not the cultured class alone that enjoys this refined amusement.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
He appealed to me as a member of a cultured class.
From Gossamer 1915 by Birmingham, George A.
This relation of the common people in Switzerland to the cultured class is assumed as the foundation for just such a relation in Russia.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
America, unlike England, has no recognized cultured class, and has no aristocracy, so called, with which to keep mere rich men suitably miserable—at least a little humble and wistful.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley
