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

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

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

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

"Cette canaille de R�publique!" murmured in my ear, as we drove off, my friend and host, whose sympathies were entirely with the ancien r�gime.

From A New Medley of Memories by Hunter-Blair, David

The Sunday following—I am ashamed to say it—our cur� Daniel, and many other cur�s in our neighborhood, preached that Garibaldi was a canaille.

From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Chatrian, Alexandre