Well-to-do Sentence Examples

In this story, Rose is sailing with her family and well-to-do fiancé.

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The standard of life of the ordinary well-to-do middle class in England, for example, includes not only food, clothing and shelter of a kind different in many respects from that of a similar class in other countries and of other classes in England, but a highly complicated mechanism, both public and private, for ministering to these primary needs, habits of social intercourse, educational and sanitary organization, recreative arrangements and many other elements.

Its altitude gives the city a cool invigorating climate, making it a favourite summer residence for the well-to-do classes of Rio.

The manufactures of lace, carpets and curtains, furniture and carriages may be particularly mentioned, but it is chiefly as a place of residence for the well-to-do that the city has increased in size and population.

A consequence of this change of circumstances was that comedy was no longer national in character and sentiment, but had become imitative and artistic. The life which Terence represents is that of the well-to-do citizen class whose interests are commonplace, but whose modes of thought and speech are refined, humane and intelligent.

This quality is the only one consumed in the country, with the exception of a comparatively small quantity of granulated, and of refined sugar in tablets prepared for people of the well-to-do classes.

They occupy, in fact, an intermediate stage of de gradation between the comparatively well-to-do tribes in the tributary states (the stronghold and home of the race), and the Pans, Bauris, Kandras and other semi-aboriginal peoples on the lowlands, who rank as the basest castes of the Hindu community.

Few provinces in Spain are inhabited by so laborious, active and well-to-do a population.

Carlyle had given the manuscripts to him, telling him that he might publish them if he thought it well to do so, and at the close of his life agreed to their publication.

The well-to-do whites of Cartagena usually have country houses on the Turbaco hills, where the temperature is much lower than on the coast.

The number of peasant proprietors is proportionately greater than in any other part of Prussia, and as a class they are well-to-do.

It is a well-to-do place, beautifully situated near the Lake of Varese, and for this reason a favourite summer and autumn resort of the Milanese, who have numerous country houses in the vicinity.

All this time the brutal work of the Blood Council went on, as did the exodus of thousands upon thousands of industrious and well-to-do citizens, and with each year the detestation felt for Alva and his rule steadily increased.

Well-to-do people with stable homes, in good health are more likely to vote.

The characters as originally created by William J. and Lee Phillip Bell were the well-to-do Brooks family and poor Foster family.

The independent tenure of the land by a vast number of small farmers, who are their own masters, gives an air of carelessness, almost of truculence, to the well-to-do Danish peasants.

Various attempts were also made to improve trade and industry by abolishing the still remaining privileges of the Hanseatic towns, by promoting a wholesale immigration of skilful and well-to-do Dutch traders and handicraftsmen into Denmark under most favourable conditions, by opening up the rich fisheries of the Arctic seas, and by establishing joint-stock chartered companies both in the East and the West Indies.

Within a few weeks of his return (July 7th, 1494) Diirer was married, according to an arrangement apparently made between the parents during his absence, to Agnes Frey, the daughter of a well-to-do merchant of the city.

Lutheranism was more attractive to grand-ducal patriots and well-to-do burghers than to the poor and oppressed and disinherited.

In his thirteenth year his father died, leaving the family well-to-do; the home at Woodford was broken up, as being unnecessarily large; and in 1848 William Morris went to Marlborough, where his father had bought him a nomination.

In 1905 the Opposition made an effort to effect a change of policy, and were successful in obtaining the election of Lizaro Garcia, a well-to-do merchant and a director of the Banco commercial y Agricola.

A second marriage, however, brought him into possession of the Frankfort inn, "Zum Weidenhof," and he ended his days as a well-to-do innkeeper.

The most shameless bribery and the robbery of the well-to-do went together with the most extravagant luxury.

Nearly all the European garden flowers, even the rarer ones, can now be seen not only in the parks and gardens of the rich and well-to-do but in many unpretentious courtyards with only a few square yards of surface.

The noble and well-to-do, who need not till their fields in person, are pledged to appear at court as frequently as possible.

His original name was Jacques Duese, and he came either of a family of petty nobility or else of well-to-do middle-class parents, and was not, as has been popularly supposed, the son of a shoemaker.

The military element was no longer all-important, and the ephebia became a sort of university for well-to-do young men of good family, whose social position has been compared with that of the Athenian "knights" of earlier times.

The modern town of Zobeir, a sort of health suburb, occupied by the villas of well-to-do inhabitants of Basra, lies near the ruin mounds which mark the situation of the ancient city.

Many of the early settlers were well-to-do and brought their slaves with them, and for many years the settlement was reputed the richest in the colony.

Thus the buildings forming the residence of a well-to-do farmer of the bo-aire class as described in the Laws, consisted of a living-house in which he slept and took his meals, a cookinghouse, a kiln for drying corn, a barn, a byre for calves, a sheepfold and a pigsty.

Justice is administered, on the whole, with fairness and impartiality; but the taxation seems too heavy for the means of the people, indeed it is affirmed by trustworthy natives that the well-to-do classes are being gradually drained of their property.

Thus the progress of the Revolution, so far, had left the mass of the people still excluded from any constitutional influence on the government, which was in the hands of the well-to-do classes, which also controlled the National Guard and the municipalities.

His father was a well-to-do man of business, a Unitarian in religion and a Liberal in politics.

Most of the exchange is in Standard English which you could argue shows that the pupils are from a fairly well-to-do background.

Where they were some distance from the commons, however, even the relatively well-to-do farmers had to reduce their cropping.

My father was a doctor and my mother came from a rather well-to-do family in Germany.

Not even the pleasure of ruining the Liberals was sufficient to persuade the Conservatives to vote for a measure which would transfer the power from the well-to-do to the indigent, and Hohenwart justly complained that they ought to have been secure against surprises of this kind.

Do you know of any person who was once poor but who has lately and suddenly become well-to-do?

The economy makes new machines that replace manual labor because many thousands of people are paid very well to do so.

Though the peasants paid quitrent, Alpatych thought no difficulty would be made about complying with this order, for there were two hundred and thirty households at work in Bogucharovo and the peasants were well to do.

We had a well-to-do homestead, plenty of land, we peasants lived well and our house was one to thank God for.

Tyndall was then drawn toward Nick Griffin, who came from a well-to-do family.

Recently at the airport I sat between two middle-aged and evidently well-to-do ladies waiting for our flight to be called.

The women who attended this Congress were for the most part well-to-do women of the middle class.

And Zebedee was a fairly well-to-do man because he employed hired servants in his business.

While prenuptial agreements have been around for a very long time for the wealthy, they're gaining in popularity for those who aren't as well-to-do.

Originally, only the well-to-do would hire a wedding limo, but this is no longer the case.

First, you play Jack Carver, a retired Navy commando giving an exploration tour of an obscure island with well-to-do tourists (hidden dinosaur island in Jurassic Park).

It may even serve you well to do your research well ahead of time, finding the stores that have the designs you're looking for in the thickness and material you desire.

Hayley Tamaddon as Delilah Dingle, a sweet, well-to-do character who stood out in the Dingle family for being genuinely kind.

Of these, a few have become known as chic places for the well-to-do to get their ink done.

Born in England, he was stolen from his well-to-do family and sold into slavery in Ireland.

It was a residential centre for well-to-do planters before the Civil War, and Bellair, 6 m.

Almost the only decent buildings are the governor's palace, the British residency and the houses of some well-to-do merchants.

His parents appear to have been well-to-do Czechs of the peasant class.

Lipki district (from the lipki or lime trees, destroyed in 1833) is of recent origin, and is mainly inhabited by the well-to-do classes.

Convinced free-traders, they hoped by private energy to build up the fortunes of the country, parliamentary government - which meant for them the rule of the educated and well-to-do middle class - being one of the means to this end.

C. we see that the priestly aristocracy of Jerusalem had, like the well-to-do classes everywhere in Syria, been carried away by the Hellenistic current, its strength being evidenced no less by the intensity of the conservative opposition embodied in the party of the " Pious " (Assideans, Hasidim).

Pilgrimage with the ancient Arabs was the fulfilment of a vow, which appears to have generally terminated - at least on the part of the well-to-do - in a sacrificial feast.