canaille

• Somers wrote bitterly to friends who had been all-influential till lately, but whom the canaille were now trying to taint also. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
• With the growth of political equality the aristocracy had become more insistent upon the privilege of birth, which could not be taken from them; and for a Claudius to descend among the canaille was as if a Howard were to seek adoption from a shopkeeper in the Strand. —  Caesar: A Sketch
• By the way, are "canaille" and "canard" in the French list? —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• "But they are the same sort of ruffians as those who destroyed the Bastile The news of that event had a short time before reached us Now let us return to the watch-tower, and try to make out what the canaille are about The mob, as far as we could observe, were not as yet approaching. —  Paddy Finn
• The fellow affects a most dignified contempt for the canaille, because, in truth, they never invite him to dinner--is on the free list of all the theatres, from having formerly been freely hiss'd upon their boards--a retired tragedy king on a small pension, with a republican stomach, who still enacts the starved apothecary at home, from penury, and liberally crams his voracious paunch, stuffing like Father Paul, when at the table of others. —  The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life

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