vulgus

Example Sentences

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She invited him to visit her garden—a sanctuary into which the profanum vulgus were never allowed to penetrate.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

As for these cattle, odi profanum vulgus, et arceo; of which I account them, be they never so great.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Senatorque vocor, vulgus me poplite curvo, Muneribusque datis veneratur, fronte retecta.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

He gave her his arm, and they vanished from the eyes of the ignobile vulgus.

From One Year Abroad by Howard, Blanche Willis

Remembering this, I forbear tying Sellar to odi profanum vulgus.

From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)