She either had been "quality" - respectable, prosperous, upper class - or still was.

The respectable middle class mocked him, but each successful jump made Patch a bigger popular hero.

Further, this was a novel attitude to sexuality: it became compulsory for the "respectable" classes only in the 17th century.

They were known amongst the respectable classes as the Ranters.

It was founded "to provide shelter and care for unmarried girls of the comparatively respectable class".

Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property".

See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.

Place believed that only since his youth in the 1780s had London's artisans begun to improve into a more "respectable" class.

Solicitors are a very respectable class, and in the country often dine with the best families.

There was, too, a constituency ready to be stirred by such scandals, in the lower middle class and the respectable working class.