Word: plebeian
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...ourselves matters not. What boots it that their thoughts, far from being concentrated on some ethereal conception of intellectuality, are intent on that position at ten dollars a week and the comparative chances of an aesthetic lunch on fourteen cents at "Holts'." Their raiment sets them apart from the plebeian mass of undergraduates for the remainder of their connection with the University...
...adoption into a plebeian family Clodius became eligible to the tribuneship, to which he was elected in 59 B.C. His first measure in the new office was directed against Cicero, whom he had always hated. A law was passed making it a serious offence to execute Roman citizens without a trial, an action which Cicero had been forced to take in the Catilinian conspiracy. After much hesitation, Cicero decided to avoid the issue by retiring from the city...
That Carlyle ever came to be a disciple to Goethe has appeared strange to many for they seemed to the casual observer to be widely separated; Goethe was a patrician, the favorite of a count, whileCarlyle was more a plebeian. The most serious obstacle to Carlyle's worshipping Goethe, was found not in the writings of Goethe but in Goethe's life itself...
...return, Jack would greatly relieve me. Jack was what in plebeian parlance is sometimes denominated a "masher." In other words, he was good-looking and very facetious, hence the girls very naturally succumbed...
...from the mouth of Rome's plebeian bird...