better sort

Mike Huckabee is a better sort, but in the world according to Drake, “he gets a little mushy around the edges.”

Even the better sort of men who haunt our public-houses are glad to meet and talk with the poachers.

In houses of a better sort the floor was made of stone slabs fitted smoothly together.

His house, which formerly was thronged with visitors and the better sort of citizens, was now grown solitary and unfrequented.

He was thin; his boyish good looks were gone, but good looks of a better sort had come to take their place.

This one is of the better sort—you can tell directly you see him, and you can hear it directly he opens his mouth.