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
When I am in the bill at Les ambassadeurs, the place is always full of English—my songs are canaille, aren't they? really canaille.
From Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell
"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
And by-and-by, when the bourgeoisie is frightened of the canaille and tired of the blood-letting, your Vellington he will be the Emperor.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
Count you the fork and spoons, Mr Robbins, and see that these canaille music men come not down the air—ree.
From Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn
