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

The canaille have taken to parade the streets, singing and shouting their odious songs, and Jocasse has suffered much from the disturbance.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

"Regard me simply in the light of a son who wishes to bury his father, and who is prevented from fulfilling that most sacred duty by the wickedness and malice of the canaille."

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann

He had with him as his chamber-moor his long, lean dispenser, who in the adjoining drinking-room encountered the very short dispenser of the second apothecary's-shop, or shop of the canaille.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul