lower orders
Example Sentences
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Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2017
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2016
The company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015
Speakeasies were breaking down old social barriers by creating spaces where the upper crust rubbed shoulders with the lower orders.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2013
This illiberal feeling is, however, fast wearing away; but, among the lower orders, the application of herbs and other simples is yet wholly resorted to for the removal of their complaints.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
