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

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

When I am in the bill at Les ambassadeurs, the place is always full of English—my songs are canaille, aren't they? really canaille.

From Woman and Artist by O'Rell, Max

And by-and-by, when the bourgeoisie is frightened of the canaille and tired of the blood-letting, your Vellington he will be the Emperor.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.