They can say that they're not giving up on their goal of making the better-off pay their fair share in taxes.
The poor could work their way, driving cattle for the better-off.
And how the better-off among them pity their weaker brethren!
I found on lately revisiting Anjou, and in the Berri, that the better-off peasants are building houses with upper bedrooms.
The better-off purchase strong, unbleached goods of local manufacture.
But the better-off people sent persons into the Upper House who were against it.
He was one of that hapless band who are always doing duty for other and better-off people.
They have no bottles, nor have I, and the better-off bring great copper jugs and basins for an ounce or two of lotion!
The better-off were lavish—or had been until a few years previously—when they had certified proof that the cases were deserving.
Luke knew that it contained gifts—the hateful, merciful, nauseating charity of the better-off.
