leisured class
Example Sentences
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"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one of his early essays Renan points out that the proper apology for the old French aristocracy is that it performed the proper function of a leisured class.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
It must not be supposed that all that has been described is only possible, or only needed, in the boarding school or only for a specially leisured class.
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
For in a new and sparsely settled country there is no wealthy leisured class who have much time to devote to fishing.
From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Lambert, Thomas Wilson
