For women from the "middling" classes, teaching in or opening a female academy, which paid far more than teaching in a common school, required academy training in the ornamental subjects.

The first was a moral task of developing the taste of the middling classes towards (what was in the AAU's estimation) the best kind of American art and its themes.

Berlin has a string of first-class hotels, and not a lot in the middling class.

This costume represented more of a middling class of working man, someone who was, unlike many of his personae, not a particularly dangerous fellow, and he wanted to make sure he had the nuances down.

But you dont know much of anything about the ordinary person in Valdemar, of the middling classes, do you?

As a large '74', she carried 24-pdrs on her upper gun deck instead of the 18-pdrs found on the middling and common class 74s.

They were grouped in with the large class of 74s, as they carried 24 pdrs on their upper gun decks, rather than the 18 pdrs of the middling and common class 74s.

The story follows the exploits of Chichikov, a gentleman of middling social class and position.

But most early Pentecostals were upwardly mobile members of the stable working class and their leaders "the most upwardly mobile segment of the middling class."

Extant records of subscribers show that women from a wide range of social standings purchased the book, indicating the growing number of scientifically inclined female readers among the middling class.