rabble

Example Sentences

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It has become a thing of rushing rabbles, jazz orchestras, pep meetings, frolics, hops and schedules fitted to make the second show at the movies.

From Time Magazine Archive

And they are in number more than a hundred to one; and of that hundred, every one a hundred times more to be regarded and esteemed than a hundred such whole rabbles of the other.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

The swarms of ecclesiastics of all kinds on one side, and the scoundrel rabbles of the common people on the other, make Rome the unpleasantest place in the world to live in.

From The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana by Defoe, Daniel

And had he begun to build his castles to stun and overawe the rabbles that pass his door?

From The Root of Evil by Dixon, Thomas

The clubs of the Jacobins were closed, and that infamous society which had rallied and directed the hideous rabbles of the great cities was broken up.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness