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

Then may I ask what are these canaille to me?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

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

He had with him as his chamber-moor his long, lean dispenser, who in the adjoining drinking-room encountered the very short dispenser of the second apothecary's-shop, or shop of the canaille.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

I am not so fastidious as Dr. Grey, and one who sprang from canaille must be pardoned if she betrays a longing for the ‘flesh-pots of Egypt.’

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans