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The rabble

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the lowest class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people.
- Shak.

See also: Rabble



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Life is a well of delight; but where the rabble also drink, there all fountains are poisoned.
"Up there is the rabble of the wood, continued she, pointing to several laths which were fastened before a hole high up in the wall; "that's the rabble; they would all fly away immediately, if they were not well fastened in.
After dinner it was whispered in town there would be a mob at night, and that Paxton, Hallowell, the custom-house, and admiralty officers' houses would be attacked; but my friends assured me that the rabble were satisfied with the insult I had received and that I was become rather popular.
 
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