Many of the Loyalists belonged to the well-educated and well-to-do classes.

Think of the populations of our drawing-rooms, of our well-to-do clubs, of our universities, of our commercial and professional offices, whose occupations, whatever they are, are entirely remote from the direct needs and meanings of life; or again of the vast masses who inhabit the mean streets of our great towns, ignorant, ill-grown, unskilled, and in a chronic state of most precarious and uncertain employment.

Hearken this, oh, ye spruce Figaros of the city, who trim the clean, crisp whiskers of the well-to-do!

In reply it is contended that the limitation of the tax to the wealthy or well-to-do classes is justified because these classes do not pay their fair share of the indirect national taxes, or of local property taxes.

Galsworthy is the relentless analyist of well-to-do, conventional English society.

The professors and students in the universities, professional men, and the well-to-do of the middle classes were foremost in their discontent and in their zeal for reform.

So evident is it that the means of spiritual life have been so confused with the purely material, that it occasions no surprise when a neighbourhood having changed from the residence district of the comparatively well-to-do to the very poor, the vestry feels bound to consider the moving of the church to a more 'desirable' quarter.

The population consisted generally of well-to-do farmers, shopkeepers, mechanics, and fishermen, with a sprinkling of lawyers and doctors and ministers, most of whom were compelled to practise the severest economy, and all of whom were tolerably educated and familiar with the principles on which their rights and liberties rested.

Their educational establishments were places of luxury for the children of wealthy and well-to-do families rather than establishments in which to perfect and develop the minds of the Filipino youth.

I am a tramp no longer, but a respectable and, I may add, well-to-do citizen.

" At fourteen, just when the "education" of well-to-do boys is beginning, the working boy's education stops.

"All the young people and especially the boys, belonging to well-to-do families residing in the other islands go to Manila to study the arts and learn a profession.

As you approach Altdorf from Flüelen, on the Lake of Lucerne, by the long white road, the first houses you reach are large structures of the conventional village type, plain, but evidently the homes of well-to-do people, and some even adorned with family coats-of-arms.

Dr. Miller had received a call, about one o'clock, to attend a case at the house of a well-to-do colored farmer, who lived some three or four miles from the town, upon the very road, by the way, along which Miller had driven so furiously a few weeks before, in the few hours that intervened before Sandy Campbell would probably have been burned at the stake.

CHAPTER IX THE DAILY LIFE OF THE WELL-TO-DO

It is as absurd to judge of the condition of the slave by visiting an amiable planter and his lady, as it would be to judge of the clothing, feeding, and comfort of our labouring population by calling at the town-house of the Duke of Well-to-do and carefully noting the worthy who fills an arm-chair like a sentry-box, and is yclept the porter.

One has prospered and is comfortable and well-to-do.

CHAPTER XX TOWN SLAVES Southern households in town as well as in country were commonly large, and the dwellings and grounds of the well-to-do were spacious.

Perhaps a liberal exercise of love and charity by not more than half a dozen well-to-do people could answer every prayer in the room!

I looked up to see her crossing the veranda to join her uncle and auntcorrect, well-to-do English people that one placed instantlyand my stare was only one of many that followed her as she took her seat and threw aside the light scarf that swathed her bare and gleaming shoulders.

A most astounding instance occurs in Goethe's Wertherthe story of a common servant who conceived a passion for a well-to-do widow.

Always speak in your native and mother tongue, not coarsely like the dregs of the people, or poor chamber-maids, but like the most refined and well-to-do citizens, with erudition and elegance.

But then I had been brought up differently, and by the time I had done with Oxford, I had all the tastes and instincts of the well-to-do man.

She had heard tellindeed, it was an article of faith among the show-children with whom she had been brought upthat the sons and daughters of the well-to-do followed weird ways and practised discomfortable habitsattended public worship on Sundays, for instance, walking two and two in stiff raiment.

His father was a well-to-do planter.