canaille
Example Sentences
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He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Then may I ask what are these canaille to me?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
Still, there are others----" "You forget that I have got to rule the canaille in Cahors," he answered impatiently, "as well as these mad clowns, who think that the end of the world is here.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
Mount, brother, mount, or we shall have the whole rustic canaille upon us in a twinkling.” p. 135I did as he commanded: we were presently in the road which we had left the night before.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry
The enemies of the church are to be found almost exclusively in the bourgeoisie, and still more in the canaille, of that literature.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich
