Примери за middling

• The substantial and middling tenants at this time would have held on long leases, typically of 11 or 19 years.

• His description of ' middling ' values is highly prescriptive, static, and defined against aspects of social mobility that he regards as inimical to these values.

• The middling sorts were keen consumers of publicly performed music as well as avid makers of music in their homes.

• In simple numbers they constituted the largest group within the middling sort, responsible for nearly half the inventories.

• Their religion may also have made it possible for them (and the middling sort) to allow those below them a more active role.

• The master-servant divide allegedly widened over the course of the eighteenth century, trickling down from the nobility to the middling sorts.

• In response, they exaggerated and denounced the new styles visible among urban servants, apprentices and middling folk.

• We speculate that it was this consumer-conscious middling sort which promoted urban change.

• It also contrasts strongly with the life experiences of many ' middling ' autobiographers.

• Even before they became middling in status there were signs of greater possibilities already manifest in these two individuals because of their social vigour.

• Among the middling officers, the intensity of their large inner circles was clearly lower at a median of 2.9 interactions per network member.

• It was the hard-working, entrepreneurial, charitable middling townsman, and his equally diligent wife; the characters who now, quite self-consciously, occupied this typical urban middling order.

• Here blasphemy becomes the development and reformation of manners which occurs at the behest of secular authorities and processes of middling sort class formation.

• Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability.

• This garment illustrates items of popular fashion, as worn by middling and labouring women.