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

By that time I began to perceive which way the wind was blowing: the canaille had unceremoniously linked their arms in those of the National Guards, and insisted, courteously but firmly, on carrying their firearms.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

He was, moreover, no friend to the populace, to the canaille, and he had a particular aversion to the nationals. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

But to think of her partaking of hospitality—all alone, too—with the canaille of Wynford!”

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

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