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Meanings of polished society in English

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Usage of polished society in English
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I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.
Pride and Prejudice
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He was again Clifford Armytage, enacting a polished society man among yokels.
Merton of the Movies
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The polished society man with the habit of external unselfishness disappeared.
The Gray Dawn
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He reveled in the thought of courts and polished society.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Wherever you go the same polished society will present to you the same monotony.
Godolphin, Volume 4.
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The ingenuity and the impudence of fraud are not solely the production of polished society.
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain J...
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Mr. Burke, in his first essay, called aristocracy "the Corinthian capital of polished society."
The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights ...
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Even in the most polished society the men used to pick quarrels to fight to the death.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Ou...
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His dress, always studied, was more to the fashion of polished society, more simply correct-his air more decided.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07
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At Rome, the residence of Hortense was the centre of the most brilliant and polished society of the city.
Hortense / Makers of History Series
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I soon became an inmate of the family, and for the first time enjoyed the pleasures of highly- polished society.
The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Son...
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The Greek character in this northern province was much less corrupted than in the more polished society to the south.
The Life of St. Paul
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If he had been an ordinary and polished society-man, the flirtation would have been humdrum, like a score of others.
From Jest to Earnest
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She received as good an education as St. Louis could afford and was introduced to the refining influences of polished society.
The Second William Penn / A true account of incidents that happe...
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Somewhere during the last week Shane had lost his mental image of her as William Gerrard's wife, the polished society lady.
Heart of gold
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Let the Philosopher answer this one question: What figure, at that period, was a Mrs. Teufelsdrockh likely to make in polished society?
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
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