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

Mount, brother, mount, or we shall have the whole rustic canaille upon us in a twinkling.” p. 135I did as he commanded: we were presently in the road which we had left the night before. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

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 O'Rell, Max

"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 Sudermann, Hermann

I have broken with 'the gentlemen' to cast my lot with the canaille.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James