Our brilliant but polished conversation, and our
high-class tastes, were beyond them.
Maggie perceived that Pete brought forth all his elegance and all his knowledge of
high-class customs for her benefit.
His family of Kwaque, Michael, and Cocky required food and shelter; more costly than that was maintenance of the Ancient Mariner in the
high-class hotel; and, in addition, was his six-quart thirst.
And so Jurgis got a glimpse of the
high-class criminal world of Chicago.
With his typical face, clean shaven on lip and chin, with a firm mouth, a strong jaw, a steady eye, and two little white fluffs of whiskers, he could never be taken for anything but what he was, a
high-class British medical consultant of the age of fifty, or perhaps just a year or two older.
I seized my hat and, trying not to look at Apollon, who had been all day expecting his month's wages, but in his foolishness was unwilling to be the first to speak about it, I slipped between him and the door and, lumping into a
high-class sledge, on which I spent my last half rouble, I drove up in grand style to the Hotel de Paris.
Its politics were strongly liberal, and to oppose it the Tory 'Quarterly Review' was founded in 1808, under the editorship of the satirist William Gifford and with the cooperation of Sir Walter Scott, who withdrew for the purpose from his connection with the 'Edinburgh.' These reviews were followed by other
high-class periodicals, such as 'Blackwood's Magazine,' and most of the group have maintained their importance to the present day.
She had lately taken up painting in water-colours, having read in a
high-class woman's weekly paper that a great many princesses of the European royal houses were cultivating that art.
The world had thrown up a new type of gentleman altogether--a gentleman of most ungentlemanly energy, a gentleman in dusty oilskins and motor goggles and a wonderful cap, a stink-making gentleman, a swift,
high-class badger, who fled perpetually along high roads from the dust and stink he perpetually made.
At first glance I saw that she was a
high-class vessel, a harmonious creature in the lines of her fine body, in the proportioned tallness of her spars.
Ballmeyer was the best specimen of the
high-class "gentleman swindler." He was adept at sleight of hand tricks, and no bolder or more ruthless crook ever lived.
Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very
high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken.