canaille

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Of Berlioz, Wagner, and my humble self, it is no wonder that 'like draws to like,' and, as we are treated as impotent canaille amongst musicians, it is quite natural that we should be on good terms with the canaille among the instruments.

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"I suppose this is the case where the blood of a gentleman boils indignantly at the challenge of the canaille."

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"Adieu, Canal, canard, canaille," he quoted.

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But they were a new thing then, and the Assembly, as much outraged as alarmed by this second trespass on its dignity, could only look at its President, and mutter wrathful threats against the canaille.

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The canaille that had crouched for a century seemed in some unaccountable way to be changing its posture!

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