the better sorts
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Of the better sorts of the wild fruits that I have met with, I will barely give you the names, not designing a natural history.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
Of course they're rather dull, but then you get very few of the better sorts.
From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham
We’ll start you with all we take to-day, except one or two of the better sorts, and those we’ll halve.
From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford
Because it contains some typical examples of the better sorts of information in these works, I have thought it worth while to quote two passages from it.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
Yet these last words he uttered so lingeringly that I could see he was ready to weep with vexation at finding the better sorts of books so expensive.
From Poor Folk by C. J. Hogarth
