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

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 Fenn, George Manville

"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 Lever, Charles James

The Sunday following—I am ashamed to say it—our cur� Daniel, and many other cur�s in our neighborhood, preached that Garibaldi was a canaille.

From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Chatrian, Alexandre

The enemies of the church are to be found almost exclusively in the bourgeoisie, and still more in the canaille, of that literature.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich