Canailles [noun]

Hamburg writhed impotent at his feet and the "heavy arm of justice fell on the canaille."

They called her sinner, which she was; and she called them canaille, which they probably were.

Why must the canaille make so hideous a noise when it amuses itself?

Were she Duchess she would teach the canaille what was fitting for it!

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

Has not one of the great students of human nature said that the canaille of all nations are much alike?

And am I to see my father's name insulted, and his house dishonored by such a canaille crew as this?

It would seem that the gypsy canaille must needs take advantage of these troublous times, and form themselves into a faction.

She looked as manifestly not one of the canaille of incorrigibles as, in her place, Lucrezia Borgia would have looked.

True it is that one of our number, for there were four of us originally, fell the other day into the hands of the canaille.