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
"And am I to see my father's name insulted, and his house dishonored by such a canaille crew as this?"
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
One of the canaille, a jailer, was put on the witness stand and questioned briefly.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
"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 Hermann Sudermann
Then may I ask what are these canaille to me?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
