of the highest type
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“The big fellow from Coffeyville, Kan.,” wrote New York Times sports columnist Arthur Daley, “was a gentleman of the highest type, a distinct credit to his sport.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
The latter, a conservative gentleman of the highest type, was in his decoration a trifle too simple, austere, for many people's taste; his design too was severely academical.
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Judge Allen, personally and professionally, is a worthy representative of the highest type of American women.
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Hokum of the highest type has long been the priceless stock-in-trade of Robert Emmet Sherwood.
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Major Schenck is an affable gentleman of the highest type of citizen, a most useful and successful business man of his county, Cleveland.
From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by Elliott, James Carson