canaille
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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 George Henry Borrow
By reason of the riot, however, this teacher's, family had again become conspicuous; the pitiful canaille having allowed themselves to be soothed by an old woman.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
"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 Hermann Sudermann
The enemies of the church are to be found almost exclusively in the bourgeoisie, and still more in the canaille, of that literature.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
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