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    The omission threw her back to some ignominious spot at the Circle, some plebeian place of being a spokeswoman, a public shill.†  (source)
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    The St. Justs' are quite plebeian, and the republican government employs many spies.†  (source)
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    Rochester might probably win that noble lady's love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?'†  (source)
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    Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power, and were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order.†  (source)
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    But then the adoration of Franklin to be found in all quarters was extraordinary, as Adams would later recount: His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians, to such a degree that there was scarcely a peasant or citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen, who was not familiar with it, and who did not consider him as a friend of humankind.†  (source)
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    It was a fair parallel between new Plebeianism and old Gentility.†  (source)
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    —that there mingled in her regal beauty something of the too-quick, diffident, plebeian disdain.†  (source)
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    The struggle between the patricians and plebeians of Rome must be considered in the same light: it was simply an intestine feud between the elder and younger branches of the same family.†  (source)
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    Mine was chaotic, plebeian, and disjointed.†  (source)
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    In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.†  (source)
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    Amaranta, was so scandalized with the plebeian invasion that she went back to eating in the kitchen as in olden days.†  (source)
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    exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and d'Urfe mingles druids with them.†  (source)
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    The ashtrays (Leslie later elaborated) were of the type everyone was familiar with: usually black, circular, and stamped with such inscriptions as STORK CLUB, "2 I", EL MOROCCO or, in more plebeian settings, BETTY'S PLACE and JOE'S BAR.†  (source)
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