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

The canaille that had crouched for a century seemed in some unaccountable way to be changing its posture!

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

Then may I ask what are these canaille to me?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

Mon cher,' said the other, 'you and I were once gentlemen—we talked, ate, drank, and dressed as such; we have now the canaille life, and the past is scarcely even a dream.'

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James

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

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.