The boy declined to accept this liberal invitation, and conveyed his answer by a most contemptuous and plebian gesture, [8] upon which my brother drove him in with a shower of stones.
Precisely, however, the same gesture, plebian as it was, by which the English commandant at Heligoland replied to the Danes when civilly inviting him to surrender.
But Carmen-Magda made no sign of recalcitrancy or regret that she was en route for her plebian Gela.
Combination of the Plebian Aristocracy and the Farmers against the Nobility 26.
Julius Cæsar, although at this time a very young man, was too prominent a person to be overlooked by Sylla, in his vengeance against the plebian party.
Although Julius Cæsar was a patrician by birth, he was favorable to the plebian party.
He was obviously a gentleman, but called himself by the very plebianname of “John Jones.
Their real name is the very much more plebian one of Wiggett.
He did not call Lord Peterborough his client, because client signifies a plebian protected by a senator.
Babouc inquired into the character of this man who complained of having gained so little, and was informed that in Persepolis there were forty plebian kings who held the empire of Persia by lease, and paid a small tribute to the monarch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plebian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
