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She could not go back into the Cathedral; it was musty in itself and crowded with the Great Unwashed.
THE CALIFORNIANSGERTRUDE FRANKLIN HORN ATHERTON
Very well, we'll try it on the 'Great unwashed;' if there happens to be a bit of fire left.
THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS UPMORE, BART., M.P., FORMERLY KNOWN AS "TOMMY UPMORE"R. D. BLACKMORE
Think of the horrors that encompass all the 'great unwashed,' and then perhaps you will feel as I do.
MOLLY BAWNMARGARET WOLFE HAMILTON
At last, in 1833, an actual collision took place between them and the great unwashed in Coldbath Fields.
CURIOSITIES OF CIVILIZATIONANDREW WYNTER
He shirked the element itself, however, as religiously as though he had been one of London's great unwashed.
MYSTIC LONDON:CHARLES MAURICE DAVIES
They are the great unwashed, the mutable many, the common people.
OLD JUNKH. M. TOMLINSON
Mobility, the populace; or, according to Burke, the great unwashed.
THE SLANG DICTIONARYJOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN
What Confucius thinks, no literary man, and much less the great unwashed, would ever dare to dispute.
SIDELIGHTS ON CHINESE LIFEJ. MACGOWAN
For an instant silence fell upon the "great unwashed" below.
THE UNSPEAKABLE PERKSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
It is even so; travellers on the Alaskan trails as well as natives belong to the "great unwashed."
TEN THOUSAND MILES WITH A DOG SLEDHUDSON STUCK
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO GREAT UNWASHED

  • curs
  • dregs
  • great unwashed
  • lowest
  • rabble
  • riffraff
  • rubbish
  • scum of the earth
  • trash
  • vermin
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