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

Count you the fork and spoons, Mr Robbins, and see that these canaille music men come not down the air—ree.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

But to think of her partaking of hospitality—all alone, too—with the canaille of Wynford!”

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

"All canaille, but--not all like that, or we had some strange bed-fellows indeed!"

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

"I didn't know that honest men were canaille," retorted Elina, flushing with anger; "I thought no one was ever called by that name but villains and rascals."

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de