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As an Irish barrister once wrote upon the door of a plebians' carriage, "Why do you laugh?"

They had been privately rated by their quondam callers as plebians and dropped.

First the senators then the plebians yielded to him many of their long-cherished rights.

If the words be discordant to the station of the speaker, the Roman knights and plebians will raise an immoderate laugh.

He bound all—nobles and plebians, young and old, rich and poor—under the same discipline.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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